dependence
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In June, Microsoft also unveiled its own cutting-edge artificial intelligence models -- a crucial step toward reducing its dependence on OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Those features include preventing teen ChatGPT users from engaging in romantic or other language that could encourage " emotional dependence," including preventing the tool from implying that it was in any way conscious.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
"Here, the temperature and magnetic-field dependence, together with the improved sample quality, all came together to reveal a remarkably consistent picture of the pair density wave state."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
In case you missed it: America has spent much of the past decade trying to reduce its trade and economic dependence on China, but it is proving difficult.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Cholly was kindness still, but began to resist her total dependence on him.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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
She gave nearly as much milk as the other two, and had been one of the main dependences of the family.
From The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California by Horatio Alger
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
Vocabulary lists containing dependence
Psychological Conditions and Disorders
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Jimmy Carter, Speech from July 15, 1979
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