dependence
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Fuel shortages have crippled economic output and halted public transport, increasing the island’s dependence on its burgeoning private sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
He said key to this was cutting our "dependence on fossil fuels" and increasing electrification - the amount of our energy needs met from renewable electricity.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
China’s main objectives are to accelerate its technological development, reduce dependence on foreign suppliers and achieve leadership in strategically important fields, including artificial intelligence, Hannas said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
Broadcom and Nvidia also sell high-end switches for use in Chinese data centers, though Chinese regulators are reviewing its dependence on Broadcom, according to the Financial Times.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
In Montaigne’s case this resulted in a peculiar emphasis on the subjectivity of what we know, its dependence on our personal experience.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
A breakdown of the properties registered overseas shows they went to a total of 51 different countries or crown dependences, including Russia and the Cayman Islands.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
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
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
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