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independency

[in-di-pen-duhn-see] / ˌɪn dɪˈpɛn dən si /


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"This is the idea of helping people to obtain independency and the skills they need," she told senators.

From Washington Post Aug. 22, 2018

The Supplementary Figures give experimental results regarding the independency of the absorption with respect to the polarization or the incidence angle.

From Nature Dec. 11, 2012

It will also shrink to 50 the number of U.S. cities with independency owned, editorially competitive dailies.

From Time Magazine Archive

North Carolina broke the dam when its Provincial Congress empowered its delegates in Philadelphia "to concur with the delegates of the other colonies in declaring independency."

From Time Magazine Archive

Although he once had been for “the independency of the Colonies,” Bancroft decided that he would tell British intelligence “all the information in my power.”

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen

They are well paid, as they deserve to be, for the trying work they have to go through; and many of them have recently returned to their native country with comfortable, if not ample independencies.

From Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. by Davidson, G. F.

I spent much labor upon this defaulting portion of Æsop's body of sovereign independencies, which threatened the greatest difficulties.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various

But, oh, Lucy, it is giving up little things, little independencies of thought, little daily habits, which I can't do.

From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Prouty, Olive Higgins

And the most serious problem is to make a nation of independent kings who shall not exercise their independencies "perversely or irresponsibly."

From The French in the Heart of America by Finley, John




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