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dependence

[dih-pen-duhns] / dɪˈpɛn dəns /


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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

Together, the results indicate that CBN, despite its reputation as a milder cannabis compound, interacts with some of the same receptor systems that contribute to THC dependence.

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

They did not foresee that by increasing their dependence on a single source of food, they were actually exposing themselves even more to the depredations of drought.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

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

Claims made by their pride and their self-respect, and their weaknesses and dependences.

From The Research Magnificent by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells


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