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dependent

[dih-pen-duhnt] / dɪˈpɛn dənt /




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This leaves the market increasingly dependent on private-sector demand, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

"If we become too dependent on services or products from a given country, that makes us vulnerable, whatever that country may be," Skjold-Lorange warned.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

A high-rate environment would create difficult conditions for the capital-intensive AI boom, which has become increasingly dependent on borrowed money.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

He said MI5's successes in identifying and expelling Russian spies from the UK had left the Kremlin dependent on paying proxies for attempted attacks.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

It is hard to take a captive panda—one that’s been dependent on humans its whole life—erase that dependency, and replace it with an unfamiliar self-sufficiency.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

There was just one hitch: The law applied only to employees of fully insured large companies plus CalPERS — potentially reaching roughly 9 million Californians, including workers, spouses and dependents, according to a legislative analysis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

During the Covid pandemic, Congress approved payouts to income-eligible tax filers and their dependents only, a narrower approach that would lower the cost further.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Created in the early 1990s, private-placement life insurance takes advantage of tax-code provisions intended to encourage people to provide for their dependents using life insurance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The Social Security Disability Insurance program, meanwhile, provides cash benefits to disabled workers and their eligible dependents.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

One morning, we were summoned to the dining-room — the servants, the family, the dependents — and told that there the sole hope of our College awaited us.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson


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