dependency
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They instead often raised expectations, forced dependency and gave rise to a vision of progress that reinforced social exclusion, bred anxieties about status, and concealed the environmental costs of a culture built on consumption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Regulations on AI companion bots took effect in July, aiming to curb emotional dependency and banning the creation of digital clones of real people without their consent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Still, the emerging strategies could offset 70% of the world’s dependency on energy flows through Hormuz by 2030, according to new analysis by the McKinsey Global Institute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
It has cited a host of governance issues and the group’s refusal to “transparently explain the sources of its financing or to explain its full financial dependency, at the time, on a single state-owned company.”
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Such examples of path dependency are the rule and not the exception.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
One is a so-called diversification instrument, which aims to reduce European companies’ dependencies on one country for the inputs they need.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Compared with chemical dependencies, which have been well understood since before the first DSM was compiled in 1952, the framework for describing so-called behavioral addictions is extremely new, he and others said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
When he studied the brochures of eight CCRCs across the country, the infirmities and dependencies of old age seemed buried.
From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026
The supply chain is a straight line of dependencies: Filipino consumers rely on Vietnamese rice, and Vietnamese farmers rely on Chinese fertiliser.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Ursula Granger ruled the kitchen and other dependencies, supervising the cooking and washing, the smokehouse where meats were cured, and the cider-making operation.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
