dependence
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In a broader sense, would drawing people away from chatbot dependence take an effort that involves a return to third spaces, cross-class contact, and community-building across society?
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
Drones with autonomous functions reduce their dependence on communications links and can continue despite jamming and other forms of electronic warfare.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
That could reduce dependence on newly mined resources, lower the environmental footprint of materials production, and strengthen domestic supplies of critical minerals and rare earth elements.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
They did not foresee that by increasing their dependence on a single source of food, they were actually exposing themselves even more to the depredations of drought.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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
She gave nearly as much milk as the other two, and had been one of the main dependences of the family.
From The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California by Horatio Alger
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
Vocabulary lists containing dependence
Psychological Conditions and Disorders
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Jimmy Carter, Speech from July 15, 1979
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