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dependency

[dih-pen-duhn-see] / dɪˈpɛn dən si /
NOUN
reliance
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Most companies are still allocating capital, product road maps and marketing budgets against a business model that treats aging as a period of decline, dependency and reduced consumer relevance.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

"What electrification should do is end the dependency on fossil fuels. That should be the ultimate goal," said Emel Turker Alpay, an energy campaigner with Greenpeace Turkey.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

A key consideration is the economic impact of what is known as the "dependency ratio".

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

They instead often raised expectations, forced dependency and gave rise to a vision of progress that reinforced social exclusion, bred anxieties about status, and concealed the environmental costs of a culture built on consumption.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

It is hard to take a captive panda—one that’s been dependent on humans its whole life—erase that dependency, and replace it with an unfamiliar self-sufficiency.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

Compared with chemical dependencies, which have been well understood since before the first DSM was compiled in 1952, the framework for describing so-called behavioral addictions is extremely new, he and others said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

But Beijing is trying to address those dependencies and produce those goods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

When he studied the brochures of eight CCRCs across the country, the infirmities and dependencies of old age seemed buried.

From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026

The supply chain is a straight line of dependencies: Filipino consumers rely on Vietnamese rice, and Vietnamese farmers rely on Chinese fertiliser.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

At Monticello, several enslaved servants lived in underground rooms with stone walls and brick floors, near the dependencies beneath the first floor of the main house.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis


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