dependence
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But that freedom comes with a new vulnerability - dependence on platforms that can restrict their work or cut off access to their audiences.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Importantly, the experiments were conducted in mice, so the findings do not establish that CBN causes dependence or withdrawal in people.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Chrissy’s discovery sets the stage for a twist that merely draws unfavorable comparisons to far better speculative science fiction about our growing dependence on AI companionship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Yet mining production alone will not be sufficient to cut dependence on Chinese refining.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
The first farmers were heirs to that knowledge, accumulated through tens of thousands of years of nature observation by biologically modern humans living in intimate dependence on the natural world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
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 William Ware
Hence arises the various modes, states, circumstances, conditions and situations in beings and things: also their different properties, relations and dependences.
From A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation by Hosea Ballou
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Psychological Conditions and Disorders
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Jimmy Carter, Speech from July 15, 1979
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