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dependence

[dih-pen-duhns] / dɪˈpɛn dəns /


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Renewable energy and storage will continue to be "structural solutions to the exposure and vulnerability that the external dependence on fossil fuels represents", it added.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 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

The prime minister wants local areas to move away from dependence on Whitehall grants and towards funding that rewards local economic growth.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

In short, I can feel no dependence on his coming, and I wish Mr. Weston were less sanguine.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

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

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

She gave nearly as much milk as the other two, and had been one of the main dependences of the family.

From The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California by Horatio Alger




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