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
Because of this dependence, androgen receptor inhibitors are a mainstay of treatment for metastatic prostate cancer.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
Insilico has plenty of other promising assets, but revenue and profitability are difficult to forecast given the dependence on deals transactions and milestone timing, they added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
"That combination – dependence on foreign repair capacity and regulatory lead times – represents the real bottleneck," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
And this whole Tap-Out thing is another added dimension to his dependence on us.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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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
Claims made by their pride and their self-respect, and their weaknesses and dependences.
From The Research Magnificent by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Vocabulary lists containing dependence
Psychological Conditions and Disorders
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Jimmy Carter, Speech from July 15, 1979
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