dependence

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Wilson acknowledged a greater risk to international markets, owing to their heavy dependence on imported energy.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

Defending this approach as "pragmatic", Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told the BBC the UK needed to move away from its dependence on fossil fuels and invest more in home-grown energy.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Solar power plays a major role in efforts to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and address climate change.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

“Elon has three businesses that all depend on chips, and he understands that dependence as a single point of failure,” McNeill told me in a follow up email.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

The truth of his intellectual dependence on Beeckman was utterly intolerable to him.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton