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depend

[dih-pend] / dɪˈpɛnd /




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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

The confidence boost from new leadership will also depend on the prime minister being able to sustain positive momentum in the months ahead, Bellamy said.

From The Wall Street Journal 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

In many remote places lacking accessible stores, Russians depend on them for much of their shopping, from clothes to household appliances.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

The body plans of vertebrates depend on this property: if hemoglobin’s capacity to deliver oxygen to distant sites was disrupted, our bodies would be forced to be small and cold.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

ALTER: The likelihood of accidents depends on the floor’s “coefficient of friction,” a measure of slipperiness.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

A great deal though depends on future wholesale gas prices which are impossible to accurately forecast.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

I try to catch Rani's eye, but she's gazing out the window as if her life depends on it and she doesn't care what's happening inside.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

Previous simulations were largely two-dimensional and depended on simplified assumptions about the behavior of planetary materials.

From Science Daily Jul. 25, 2026

Those prosecutions depended on the successful exercise of significant military force and the coercion of involved governments.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

The carrier added that its full-year performance depended on remaining bookings and fuel prices.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 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

Where Aristotelian physics had depended on all five of the senses, the new physics relied only on the sense of sight.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

This boundary is known as the particle horizon, the cosmological horizon, or the comoving horizon, depending on how stylish you feel in the moment.

From Science Daily Jul. 25, 2026

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

A player's ideal role can also change depending on the players around them and the opposition's set-up.

From BBC Jul. 24, 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

Between seventy-seven and eighty-four steps, depending on if Ms. Wockley is yelling at anyone in the middle of the hallway.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds




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