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dependence

[dih-pen-duhns] / dɪˈpɛn dəns /


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Google focuses on encouraging critical thinking and has specific protections for users under 18, she added, including to prevent emotional dependence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Did anyone you encounter manage to later shake out of it themselves and reduce their dependence on the thing?

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

Cage solved my next problem by insisting that the way to discover new things is to overcome our dependence on our likes and dislikes, those supposed pillars of criticism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

For a nation long seen as the poster child for dirty coal dependence, this rapid transition points to a remarkable achievement in decarbonising its grid.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Cholly was kindness still, but began to resist her total dependence on him.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

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

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 Ernest Rhys

Fortunately, the same crowded city conditions which make moral isolation possible, constantly tend to develop a new restraint founded upon the mutual dependences of city life and its daily necessities.

From A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil by Jane Addams




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