dependency

Example Sentences

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Reducing the global economy’s dependency on the Strait of Hormuz will be challenging, too.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

But whatever she was expected to do, she was clearly uncomfortable about her dependency on Epstein.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

The financial dependency on the US has therefore decreased considerably.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

Services like Google and Facebook already engage in this sort of nudging, manipulation and cultivation of dependency on their existing user base.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

But guilt doesn’t go anywhere near far enough; the appropriate emotion is shame—shame at our own dependency, in this case, on the underpaid labor of others.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich