dependence
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In a broader sense, would drawing people away from chatbot dependence take an effort that involves a return to third spaces, cross-class contact, and community-building across society?
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
Cage solved my next problem by insisting that the way to discover new things is to overcome our dependence on our likes and dislikes, those supposed pillars of criticism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Drones with autonomous functions reduce their dependence on communications links and can continue despite jamming and other forms of electronic warfare.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
For a nation long seen as the poster child for dirty coal dependence, this rapid transition points to a remarkable achievement in decarbonising its grid.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
They focus on the North’s chronic food shortages, human rights violations, military provocations, nuclear program, and dependence on China.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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A breakdown of the properties registered overseas shows they went to a total of 51 different countries or crown dependences, including Russia and the Cayman Islands.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
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
Hence arises the various modes, states, circumstances, conditions and situations in beings and things: also their different properties, relations and dependences.
From A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation by Hosea Ballou
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
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Psychological Conditions and Disorders
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Jimmy Carter, Speech from July 15, 1979
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