dependence
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The partnership addresses AI’s high power demand, using ‘behind-the-meter’ systems to reduce grid dependence for data centers.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
Every country watching these conflicts understands that dependence on any single energy supplier is a strategic liability.
From Salon • May 21, 2026
"What's more, this provides a 'made in Canada' resource that might be able to support local and regional industry hubs and reduce their dependence on importing hydrocarbon-based fuels."
From Science Daily • May 20, 2026
But in 2009, at the same time she was visiting Epstein in jail, she appears to have begun to lessen her financial dependence on him, by taking to the air.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
The first farmers were heirs to that knowledge, accumulated through tens of thousands of years of nature observation by biologically modern humans living in intimate dependence on the natural world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Vocabulary lists containing dependence
Psychological Conditions and Disorders
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Jimmy Carter, Speech from July 15, 1979
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