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[dih-pend] / dɪˈpɛnd /




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In the current environment, “the goal could be to seek either returns that depend less on stock and bond markets or assets that are less volatile in turbulent times.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed a two-part molecule that turns a major driver of B-cell lymphoma against the cancer cells that depend on it.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Visibility may depend less on advertising to people and more on being clearly described to agents through specs, structured product data and reviews that match the criteria agents ask about,” Kim said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

“But I won’t depend on AI to make any decision for me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

From now on I would try not to depend upon Oteg so much.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

"It depends on what type of face covering you're talking about - like a Burka for example, this is part of their religion," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

It depends entirely on the price you pay.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

The expert warned that the country of around 50 million people risked becoming "a society of inheritors" in which home ownership depends on parents passing property to their children.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

But what if you happen to be partnered with the person making the sound, stuck in a room with him for hours on end like your very livelihood depends on it?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Unfortunately, their argument depends on a profound misunderstanding of Hobbes’s text.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Ahead of the roundtable, Fry told producers she knew she would have to fight like her life depended on it - because it did - and try to disguise herself as still being a faithful.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Lacosamide is already used as a treatment for epilepsy, but the researchers found that its effects on cartilage depended heavily on the dose.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Slasher movies have always depended on a memorable killer, and the genre has produced some of horror’s most instantly recognizable figures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

For many years, and to an extent far greater than any other country, the U.S. military has depended on assets in space.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

In other words, if he did not answer Burr’s challenge, he would be repudiating his well-known convictions, and in so doing, he would lose the respect of those political colleagues on whom his reputation depended.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

The grace period could be adjusted depending on the "success or failure" of those efforts, the department added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

It’s caused by a bacteria called Yersinia pestis that infects fleas and the small mammals that host fleas, and there are actually three types of plague depending on which part of the body becomes infected.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

The most reliable fuel for a home-generator backup system varies depending on where a person lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Those crystals eventually become large enough to fall as rain or snow, depending on the temperatures below.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

A truck driver for a car factory, he drove brand-new shiny cars to dealerships around the country and could be gone weeks at a time, depending on the schedule.

From "Monday's Not Coming" by Tiffany D. Jackson




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