dependency

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In 2021, she joined the county counsel, assigned to Juvenile Dependency Court.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Alderney, a British Crown Dependency and part of the Channel Islands, has an independent president and a 10-member parliament.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2024

New Zealand maintains a claim to the Ross Dependency, or around roughly 15% of the continent.

From Reuters • Oct. 27, 2022

Jersey is the largest of the Channel Islands and a self-governing British Crown Dependency near the coast of northern France.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2021

"Do you maintain," said Caerlaverock, stuttering in his wrath, "that the British Government should divest itself of responsibility for the governement of our great Indian Dependency?"

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John