dependence

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Evidence from Europe shows that offshore wind can also reduce electricity costs for consumers by lowering wholesale prices and reducing dependence on fossil fuels and their volatile prices.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

The U.S. government is eager to reduce America’s dependence on China, which controls some 85% of global rare-earth processing capacity.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

By ramping up purchases from the Americas and Africa, South Korea slashed its dependence on Middle East crude from 69% to 56% in a single month.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

While the new model was trained on Nvidia’s high-end chips, DeepSeek worked closely with Huawei and other domestic chip providers, signaling a pivot away from dependence on the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 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