dependence
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Turing, whose full-scale AI training workloads are currently handled by Nvidia, plans to diversify to avoid dependence on a single supplier for graphics processing units, specialized chips used to train its autonomous-driving models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Chinese investment remains vital to the economy, even as concerns periodically surface over labour practices, local employment and the country's dependence on foreign capital.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Washington also needs a RISC-V strategy that reduces dependence on Arm without inviting dependence on China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Over time, he believes India should also reduce its dependence on "single, high-stakes entrance tests" by creating multiple opportunities for assessment and broader pathways into higher education.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The generation after Galileo had to acknowledge its dependence on Evidence-Indices and so, willy-nilly, it had to adopt the virtues of the judiciary.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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 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
Hence arises the various modes, states, circumstances, conditions and situations in beings and things: also their different properties, relations and dependences.
From A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation by Hosea Ballou
I shall take for granted that you have a fairly plain idea of the stomach and its dependences.
From The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes by Helen Campbell
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Psychological Conditions and Disorders
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Jimmy Carter, Speech from July 15, 1979
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