dependence
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In private, the prime minister has also played a key role in pushing allies to reduce their dependence on the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Did anyone you encounter manage to later shake out of it themselves and reduce their dependence on the thing?
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
Cage solved my next problem by insisting that the way to discover new things is to overcome our dependence on our likes and dislikes, those supposed pillars of criticism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
For a nation long seen as the poster child for dirty coal dependence, this rapid transition points to a remarkable achievement in decarbonising its grid.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
They focus on the North’s chronic food shortages, human rights violations, military provocations, nuclear program, and dependence on China.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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
Homes of American Statesmen":307 "His home was usually filled with friends, its dependences with their retinue and horses.
From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by John T. (John Thomson) Faris
But yet it is less danger to have an ambitious man stirring in business, than great in dependences.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
Vocabulary lists containing dependence
Psychological Conditions and Disorders
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Jimmy Carter, Speech from July 15, 1979
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