dependence
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The U.S. is pouring billions into a push to end the country’s dependence on China for critical minerals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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
Turing, whose full-scale AI training workloads are currently handled by Nvidia, plans to diversify to avoid dependence on a single supplier for graphics processing units, specialized chips used to train its autonomous-driving models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Faust added: "This obviously has potential to remove cold chain dependence, reduce wastage and improve access."
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Mott believed that “independence of the husband and wife is equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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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
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
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 Ernest Rhys
Fortunately, the same crowded city conditions which make moral isolation possible, constantly tend to develop a new restraint founded upon the mutual dependences of city life and its daily necessities.
From A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil by Jane Addams
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