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dependence

[dih-pen-duhns] / dɪˈpɛn dəns /


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It is increasing the guardrails against emotional dependence, too.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

However, this too was rejected by the Swedish Migration Agency in November 2025 with documents stating there was not a "special relationship of dependence" between the two.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

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

Washington also needs a RISC-V strategy that reduces dependence on Arm without inviting dependence on China.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

And yet for some reason it is dependence, not adulthood, he feels.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

A wiser and more benevolent instructor would teach him, on the contrary, to acknowledge his dependences and avoiding forbidden things, to partake with cheerfulness of the material blessings which surround him.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr

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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