dependence
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That could reduce dependence on newly mined resources, lower the environmental footprint of materials production, and strengthen domestic supplies of critical minerals and rare earth elements.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Investors often make investment decisions on inflation expectations and the price of oil is a major factor in prices rising across the world, given the commodity's widespread use and humanity's dependence on it.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Huawei has flourished despite the sanctions, expanding into new businesses, boosting profitability and finding fresh ways to curb its dependence on U.S. suppliers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Because of this dependence, androgen receptor inhibitors are a mainstay of treatment for metastatic prostate cancer.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
Mott believed that “independence of the husband and wife is equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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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
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
These economic dependences and independences consist only in the relations of one man or woman to the others.
From Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby
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Jimmy Carter, Speech from July 15, 1979
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