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dependence

[dih-pen-duhns] / dɪˈpɛn dəns /


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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

They see EVs as a way to reduce their dependence on imported gasoline and are rolling out policies to encourage drivers to buy them.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Faust added: "This obviously has potential to remove cold chain dependence, reduce wastage and improve access."

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

As performers protest and studios sue in their war on artificial intelligence, the entertainment industry is deepening its dependence on it.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2026

He would not answer his mother’s call, for that would have been a sign of dependence.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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 natural dependences carry with them natural uncovenanted obediences,—to parents, filial duty—to country, loyalty—to God, piety: all which are embraced in the Latin term pietas.

From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.

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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