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dependence

[dih-pen-duhns] / dɪˈpɛn dəns /


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“Using less gas means less dependence on oil, less exposure to global oil shocks, and less pollution from vehicles and oil production. And it means drivers spend less money at the pump.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Google focuses on encouraging critical thinking and has specific protections for users under 18, she added, including to prevent emotional dependence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

In a broader sense, would drawing people away from chatbot dependence take an effort that involves a return to third spaces, cross-class contact, and community-building across society?

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

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

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

You see here not only Palmyrenes, but strangers from all parts of the East--people from our conquered provinces and dependences, who feel politically with the Palmyrene, but yet have not the manners of the Palmyrene.

From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by William Ware

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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