depend
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Limerick city mayor John Moran estimates between 2,000 and 3,000 people in the region depend directly or indirectly on the refinery.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Looking forward, easyJet said full-year results depend on remaining bookings and fuel prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Whether that energy can endure, Palshikar argues, will depend on many factors, including state repression, media blackouts, leadership challenges and the difficulty of building a broad social coalition.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Farms in the Imperial Valley, which produce crops from hay to vegetables, depend entirely on the river.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Lives of service depend on the lives of support, Farmer would come to say.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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“Everything depends on Starship,” analysts at JPMorgan Chase said in a recent research note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Any successful community depends on its members completing the right jobs at the right time.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
The answer depends on a different Middle Eastern country: Iran.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
"Unfortunately, even Scott can't tell us because he doesn't know. It depends so much on the investors."
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
It’s funny, or maybe just plain pitiful, that my friends know that everything I do depends on which week it is.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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The push has made progress that few thought possible back in 2022, when Huawei was starved of U.S. technology and Chinese AI companies depended almost entirely on Nvidia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The carrier added that its full-year performance depended on remaining bookings and fuel prices.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Many earlier studies depended on biochemical techniques that required scientists to break cells open before measuring protein contacts.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
"We depended upon a corrupt Vatican official to get the text of an important papal speech ahead of delivery," he wrote.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
For a while, it seemed as if the future of eugenic sterilizations in America depended on the foggy impressions of a nurse who had been handed a cranky baby without toys.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Inverter systems can cost thousands of dollars -- not dissimilar to petrol generators depending on the size -- but proponents say running costs are lower in the long run.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Mr. Jones describes a freshwater snail that, sensing a predator, instinctively climbs or descends depending on where the perceived threat tends to hunt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
It’s both fact and fiction, and the meaning changes depending on your vantage point.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
Manx Utilities said, while the amount saved will vary depending on electricity usage during the period, removing VAT would save a typical household about £50 per year.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
In fact, a lot of times, depending on his shift, he’d come out with me after school to haul in my catch and toss the keepers into the baskets on my skiff.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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