dependence
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Renewable energy and storage will continue to be "structural solutions to the exposure and vulnerability that the external dependence on fossil fuels represents", it added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
“The historic problem with data dependence is the data and the dependence,” he said last month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The deals add to a Pentagon funding spree to reduce U.S. dependence on China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Faust added: "This obviously has potential to remove cold chain dependence, reduce wastage and improve access."
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
They focus on the North’s chronic food shortages, human rights violations, military provocations, nuclear program, and dependence on China.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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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
She gave nearly as much milk as the other two, and had been one of the main dependences of the family.
From The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California by Horatio Alger
But yet it is less danger, to have an ambitious man stirring in business, than great in dependences.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
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Psychological Conditions and Disorders
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Jimmy Carter, Speech from July 15, 1979
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