dependence
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But these interactive tools must not "excessively cater to users, induce emotional dependence or addiction, and damage users' real interpersonal relationships", China's new rulebook says.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
The attention economy is often portrayed helpfully by media outlets as an individual problem to be mitigated by reducing our own dependence on screens and devices.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
"This is something historic, we've had a border fence since 1908," says Juan Franco, the mayor of La Línea de la Concepción, who is keen to underline the local economic dependence on the British territory.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Many buy international or emerging-market funds to reduce their dependence on U.S. tech stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
And yet for some reason it is dependence, not adulthood, he feels.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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 A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest
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 Bacon, Francis
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 Saleeby, C. W. (Caleb Williams)
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Psychological Conditions and Disorders
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Jimmy Carter, Speech from July 15, 1979
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