dependence
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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
Chinese investment remains vital to the economy, even as concerns periodically surface over labour practices, local employment and the country's dependence on foreign capital.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
The prime minister wants local areas to move away from dependence on Whitehall grants and towards funding that rewards local economic growth.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Over time, he believes India should also reduce its dependence on "single, high-stakes entrance tests" by creating multiple opportunities for assessment and broader pathways into higher education.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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
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
A wiser and more benevolent instructor would teach him, on the contrary, to acknowledge his dependences and avoiding forbidden things, to partake with cheerfulness of the material blessings which surround him.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr
These natural dependences carry with them natural uncovenanted obediences,—to parents, filial duty—to country, loyalty—to God, piety: all which are embraced in the Latin term pietas.
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
Homes of American Statesmen":307 "His home was usually filled with friends, its dependences with their retinue and horses.
From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by John T. (John Thomson) Faris
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Psychological Conditions and Disorders
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Jimmy Carter, Speech from July 15, 1979
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