dependent
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“My patients are not suffering from depression; they’re suffering from oppression,” Kidia writes in the book, detailing how many people’s conditions are dependent on external circumstances, including financial instability.
From Salon • May 18, 2026
Manufacturers and food processors, many dependent on imported raw materials priced in dollars, are seeing costs surge.
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
The EFL has said that the final could be delayed, dependent on the outcome of that hearing, and any possible appeal by either Middlesbrough or Southampton.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Container-cargo flows are nowhere near as dependent on the Strait of Hormuz as crude oil is — about a fifth of the world’s crude and crude products navigated through Hormuz in peacetime.
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
He didn’t understand the kind of relationship Rufus and I had—how dependent we were on each other.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
Vocabulary lists containing dependent
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 8
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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The ACT Reading Test: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 8
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