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dependence

[dih-pen-duhns] / dɪˈpɛn dəns /


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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

The U.S. is pouring billions into a push to end the country’s dependence on China for critical minerals.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

Chinese investment remains vital to the economy, even as concerns periodically surface over labour practices, local employment and the country's dependence on foreign capital.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

The deals add to a Pentagon funding spree to reduce U.S. dependence on China.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear: very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

Nor does the mind, that sees the necessary dependences and connexions that one cause has with another, think it possible that it should be itself confined to the shortness of this life.

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Charles Duke Yonge

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

I shall take for granted that you have a fairly plain idea of the stomach and its dependences.

From The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes by Helen Campbell




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