dependent state
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"You're going from a very dependent state to a nearly independent state again by more than 50% if you can get the clot out in good time," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
It was hard, she said, to shake off the dependent state of being a prisoner.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2011
Their attempt to force an oligarchy upon every dependent state was an unwise policy, which made them generally odious.
From The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes by Charles Rann Kennedy
His behaviour in this dependent state, was the very reverse of what it should have been.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Theophilus Cibber
Their dependent state was an unnatural state, and when the reaction came, the torrent swept all before it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator by Various
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