depend upon
Example Sentences
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One can be thought of as “ripple-out” inflation, where a shock to an economically ubiquitous input — like energy — reverberates throughout other goods and sectors that depend upon it.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
On the other hand, that’s an awfully hard thing to value or depend upon.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
That’s because AI-based technologies depend upon cheap energy and electricity.
From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026
That will be the point, they fear, that they lose so many of their councillors or devolved parliament members – and so the foot soldiers that so many local political campaigns depend upon.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025
Herbert’s representations that, if I did, I should probably be laid up and stricken useless, when our fugitive’s safety would depend upon me, alone restrained my impatience.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
