dependence
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In private, the prime minister has also played a key role in pushing allies to reduce their dependence on the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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
The refinery is the latest element of Capt Traoré's drive to increase state control over Burkina Faso's natural resources and reduce its economic dependence on foreign companies and former Western partners.
From BBC ● 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
No matter what suffering they witnessed and how much they suffered themselves, though, the one thing Marina’s aviators could rely on to bring them strength and comfort was their dependence on each other.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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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
These natural dependences carry with them natural uncovenanted obediences,—to parents, filial duty—to country, loyalty—to God, piety: all which are embraced in the Latin term pietas.
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
The chief temple had spacious rooms, and its dependences surrounded a court yard.
From The Battle and the Ruins of Cintla by Daniel Garrison Brinton
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