dependence
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JPL is the largest piece of Caltech’s dependence on Washington.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
But that freedom comes with a new vulnerability - dependence on platforms that can restrict their work or cut off access to their audiences.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Importantly, the experiments were conducted in mice, so the findings do not establish that CBN causes dependence or withdrawal in people.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
For Carney, Alberta is essential to his plans to solidify Canada's economy and reduce dependence on the United States.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
I have a great regard for you and Emma; but when it comes to the question of dependence or independence!—At any rate, it must be better to have only one to please than two.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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A breakdown of the properties registered overseas shows they went to a total of 51 different countries or crown dependences, including Russia and the Cayman Islands.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
A breakdown of the properties registered overseas shows they went to a total of 44 different countries or crown dependences, including Russia and the Cayman Islands.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
Here, though, the men’s relationship, with its kindness, virtues and mutual dependences, also offers a vision of an American dream not yet wholly corrupted by unbridled self-interest.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2019
Hence arises the various modes, states, circumstances, conditions and situations in beings and things: also their different properties, relations and dependences.
From A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation by Hosea Ballou
But yet it is less danger to have an ambitious man stirring in business, than great in dependences.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
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Psychological Conditions and Disorders
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Jimmy Carter, Speech from July 15, 1979
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