dependent
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“We are dependent on these jobs,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The government said a pause would lead to the UK losing investment and being dependent on overseas computing for sensitive data processing.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
There’s always something, anytime you have an industry that’s dependent on a technological element and there’s competition for people’s attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
This is mainly due to concerns about people offering unsuitable foods and birds becoming dependent on humans.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
“If I did that, I’d be dependent on you. I need to figure out where my life is going. I need something that is mine. Otherwise...”
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Created in the early 1990s, private-placement life insurance takes advantage of tax-code provisions intended to encourage people to provide for their dependents using life insurance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Predictions that AI would kill half of all white-collar jobs or create a permanent class of unemployed welfare dependents were always far-fetched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The mother, Yadira, applied for asylum and listed Wilber, who was 15 at the time, and his younger sister, as dependents of her case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
I am a 70-year-old male with no dependents, and I own my home outright.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
One morning, we were summoned to the dining-room — the servants, the family, the dependents — and told that there the sole hope of our College awaited us.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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