dependency

Example Sentences

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Banks would be able to innovate to meet liquidity requirements, whereas the current ample-reserves system locks them into dependency on the Fed and its bond portfolio.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

"I think there are some incredible opportunities that can actually lift Greenlanders from dependency to independence," Landry said in the interview.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

But whatever she was expected to do, she was clearly uncomfortable about her dependency on Epstein.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

The financial dependency on the US has therefore decreased considerably.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

But guilt doesn’t go anywhere near far enough; the appropriate emotion is shame—shame at our own dependency, in this case, on the underpaid labor of others.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich