dependence
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But she is also a busy professional with a relatable dependence on takeout and delivery, and one who follows the news.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
New model specs for teens are designed to avoid the use of romantic language, to discourage emotional dependence and to avoid any implication that the chatbot has feelings or consciousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The teen experience includes automatic safety settings to discourage emotional dependence and prompt users to take a break every 90 minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Renewable energy and storage will continue to be "structural solutions to the exposure and vulnerability that the external dependence on fossil fuels represents", it added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 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
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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
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
The chief temple had spacious rooms, and its dependences surrounded a court yard.
From The Battle and the Ruins of Cintla by Daniel Garrison Brinton
She gave nearly as much milk as the other two, and had been one of the main dependences of the family.
From The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California by Horatio Alger
Vocabulary lists containing dependence
Psychological Conditions and Disorders
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Jimmy Carter, Speech from July 15, 1979
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