dependence
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For space traffic management, autonomous navigation and onboard catalog updates could reduce dependence on ground-based tracking networks while improving collision avoidance.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
The student-friendly experience is automatically implemented and includes homework help, break reminders and stronger guardrails against emotional dependence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
But she is also a busy professional with a relatable dependence on takeout and delivery, and one who follows the news.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
However, this too was rejected by the Swedish Migration Agency in November 2025 with documents stating there was not a "special relationship of dependence" between the two.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
In Montaigne’s case this resulted in a peculiar emphasis on the subjectivity of what we know, its dependence on our personal experience.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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
A wiser and more benevolent instructor would teach him, on the contrary, to acknowledge his dependences and avoiding forbidden things, to partake with cheerfulness of the material blessings which surround him.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr
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
The chief temple had spacious rooms, and its dependences surrounded a court yard.
From The Battle and the Ruins of Cintla by Daniel Garrison Brinton
Vocabulary lists containing dependence
Psychological Conditions and Disorders
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Jimmy Carter, Speech from July 15, 1979
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