dependence
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As performers protest and studios sue in their war on artificial intelligence, the entertainment industry is deepening its dependence on it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Microsoft insisted that using infrastructure located physically in Europe could address clients' growing concerns about dependence on US tech firms in a time of transatlantic discord.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Another aim is to increase self-sufficiency in sourcing and processing while decreasing dependence on foreign suppliers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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
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
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
I shall take for granted that you have a fairly plain idea of the stomach and its dependences.
From The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes by Campbell, Helen
She gave nearly as much milk as the other two, and had been one of the main dependences of the family.
From The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California by Alger, Horatio
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 Yonge, Charles Duke
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