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independent

[in-di-pen-duhnt] / ˌɪn dɪˈpɛn dənt /


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The energy development company could likely win a 30% market share of new renewable and independent power producer contracts, the analyst says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

“It was used to diminish me, silence me, isolate me and cast me and my independent thoughts, words and deeds as suspicious.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

A West Ham spokesperson told the BBC that aside from parties directly involved in the safeguarding process, no other external parties were notified due to "best practice safeguarding agreed with independent external bodies".

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

“Real freedom means being able to make independent choices about your own future,” Melania Trump said Thursday, but for foster children, that freedom can be hard to come by, even with a little extra funding.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

If genes were, indeed, independent particles of information, then it should be possible to select, purify, and manipulate these particles independently from one another.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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