depend upon
Example Sentences
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But for us modern humans, it means that our brains and bodies remember any excess weight gain as though our survival and lives depend upon it.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Longer-term coverage beyond that point will depend upon whether Medicare persuades insurers to participate—a prospect these companies have already balked at once.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
One can be thought of as “ripple-out” inflation, where a shock to an economically ubiquitous input — like energy — reverberates throughout other goods and sectors that depend upon it.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
But the brashest experiments in cut-rate flying might subside for years, given shortages of pilots, airport slots, and just about everything else they depend upon.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
Yet even if it did happen—and maybe it did, anything’s possible —even then you know it can’t be true, because a true war story does not depend upon that kind of truth.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
