dependent state
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"You're going from a very dependent state to a nearly independent state again by more than 50% if you can get the clot out in good time," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
It was hard, she said, to shake off the dependent state of being a prisoner.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2011
It does not, however, follow from this account, that there are no poor Quakers, or that members of this society are not born in a dependent state.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 by Thomas Clarkson
The explanation of this lies in the wretchedly dependent state of native authorship at that time.
From A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop
His behaviour in this dependent state, was the very reverse of what it should have been.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Theophilus Cibber
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