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dependence

[dih-pen-duhns] / dɪˈpɛn dəns /


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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

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

They see EVs as a way to reduce their dependence on imported gasoline and are rolling out policies to encourage drivers to buy them.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

He’d told Guitar that he didn’t “deserve” his family’s dependence, hatred, or whatever.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

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

These economic dependences and independences consist only in the relations of one man or woman to the others.

From Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby

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

Nor does the mind, that sees the necessary dependences and connexions that one cause has with another, think it possible that it should be itself confined to the shortness of this life.

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Charles Duke Yonge




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