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dependence

[dih-pen-duhns] / dɪˈpɛn dəns /


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The DOE cited California’s military installations, declining oil production, and dependence on imported crude.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 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

Drones with autonomous functions reduce their dependence on communications links and can continue despite jamming and other forms of electronic warfare.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

Investors often make investment decisions on inflation expectations and the price of oil is a major factor in prices rising across the world, given the commodity's widespread use and humanity's dependence on it.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

But she had not been there two minutes when she found that Harriet’s habits of dependence and imitation were bringing her up too, and that, in short, they would both be soon after her.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

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

Hence arises the various modes, states, circumstances, conditions and situations in beings and things: also their different properties, relations and dependences.

From A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation by Hosea Ballou

But yet it is less danger, to have an ambitious man stirring in business, than great in dependences.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon




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