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dependence

[dih-pen-duhns] / dɪˈpɛn dəns /


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Google said it has prioritized youth protections, particularly around emotional dependence and reinforcement of false beliefs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Did anyone you encounter manage to later shake out of it themselves and reduce their dependence on the thing?

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

Cage solved my next problem by insisting that the way to discover new things is to overcome our dependence on our likes and dislikes, those supposed pillars of criticism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

For a nation long seen as the poster child for dirty coal dependence, this rapid transition points to a remarkable achievement in decarbonising its grid.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

If there is one thing she hates most about being in the foster care system, it’s this dependence on people you barely know, your vulnerability to their whims.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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

But yet it is less danger, to have an ambitious man stirring in business, than great in dependences.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon




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