dependent
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Despite being the fourth largest economy in the world — the home of Hollywood and Silicon Valley — California’s budget is extremely dependent on the state’s most prosperous residents.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026
Many of the approaches remained dependent on using fossil fuels and could result in still more emissions, not less.
From Salon • Jun. 26, 2026
If sunlight dependent microbes could not have created the structures, what did?
From Science Daily • Jun. 26, 2026
"My patients ask me - if they become dependent, who will take care of them?" says Dr Prasun Chatterjee, who leads the geriatrics unit at Apollo Hospital in Delhi.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026
Masaccio’s Holy Trinity, 1425, in Santa Maria Novella in Florence, is the earliest rigorous perspective painting to survive, and is evidently dependent on Brunelleschi’s studies.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing dependent
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 8
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The ACT Reading Test: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 8
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