dependence
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Net foreign direct investment inflows fell from a year earlier in both the first and second quarters, while rising defense and infrastructure costs threaten to divert money from megaprojects intended to reduce dependence on oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
AI is actually more likely to deepen dependence on those platforms, he wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
In June, Microsoft also unveiled its own cutting-edge artificial intelligence models -- a crucial step toward reducing its dependence on OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
The major AI firm rolled out many teen safety guardrails in August, including curbs on emotional dependence and new parental alerts for problematic use.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The first farmers were heirs to that knowledge, accumulated through tens of thousands of years of nature observation by biologically modern humans living in intimate dependence on the natural world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
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
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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