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
Supply-chain bottlenecks forced companies to rethink their dependence on overseas suppliers in favor of more domestic sourcing and inventory stocking that required factories and warehouses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
It recognized the massive dependence of the American economy on trade with England.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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
You see here not only Palmyrenes, but strangers from all parts of the East--people from our conquered provinces and dependences, who feel politically with the Palmyrene, but yet have not the manners of the Palmyrene.
From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by Ware, William
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
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Psychological Conditions and Disorders
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