dependency

Example Sentences

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Last year, UPS said it would start to reduce its dependency on Amazon as part of a turnaround plan, which would see the company focus on more profitable customers like healthcare companies.

From BBC

“These dependencies around technology, around security, around finance and the dollar, that’s the glue that’s now keeping together the Western bloc,” said Neil Shearing, chief economist at Capital Economics in London.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We want to trade and deal with the US on as many issues as possible," Jorgensen said, but he added that "we are not aiming at replacing one dependency with a new dependency".

From Barron's

Beijing is accelerating its domestic chip push to insulate its tech sector from U.S. export controls and hardware dependencies, he pointed out.

From MarketWatch

Officials and lawmakers said the bloc’s focus on tech sovereignty is about curbing dependencies and boosting European companies, not an attempt to ditch American tech entirely.

From The Wall Street Journal