How to Use dependency in a Sentence

dependency

noun

• At the same time, the lessons of the last few years have made clear that there’s no silver bullet to curtailing the world’s dependency on China.
  — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2022
• Our clients are moving away from a dependency on one country.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2022
• Summers said that kind of dependency did not exist in the U.S., and could prove to be the difference between a severe recession and a mild one.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2022
• The dependency on commodities can lead to boom-and-bust cycles because their prices swing with changes in supply and demand.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Achieve a green oil-dependency along the lines of contemporary Europe.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022
• By always being ready to search the web and communicate, it is supposed to quash dependency on smartphones.
  — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
• The goal is to decrease dependency on other countries, including China, and make the United States a tech leader.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 9 Aug. 2022
• Over time, this dependency on makeup can have adverse effects on one's self-esteem and body image.
  — Maeghan Dolph, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2023
• Having played a morphine addict in my first play, and doing the research about that—the chemical dependency, the immediate relief—that was a clue to me.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2024
• Though efforts to make roads less full of big, heavy cars could reduce both resource dependency and deaths, climate policy has yet to reflect that shift.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 30 Jan. 2023
• And unlike her past songs about love and intimacy, Cyrus largely avoids the self-deprecation and dependency of her past songs on the same subjects.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023
• The disruptions are set to continue because of just how long the lingering dependency on gasoline will last.
  — Chunzi Xu, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2023
• She’s played by a quietly affecting Candy Dato in what turns out to be a nightmare of dependency.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2022
• The drug, Bayer claimed, was not only stronger than morphine but also far less addictive—so much so that it was billed as the antidote to morphine dependency.
  — Leo Deluca, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2023
• In this new study, researchers studied over 600 patients with heroin dependency, including those who both were and were not in treatment.
  — Dr. Khushali Jhaveri, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• Buprenorphine and naloxone are used to treat opioid dependency.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 30 Jan. 2023
• Starting in the 1970s, ethanol was blended into gasoline to reduce dependency on foreign oil.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2022
• The girls were interviewed and placed in group homes until dependency proceedings determined their parents’ or guardian’s fitness to care for them.
  — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
• Advocates have long argued that the therapeutic use of psychedelics can be safer and more effective than prescription drugs, some of which carry the risk of dependency.
  — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2023
• Of course, high levels of dependency directly correlate to high levels of risk.
  — Carmen Ene, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• The Saudi factory could open by 2024, as the kingdom seeks to reduce dependency on its oil economy and transition to electric cars.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2023
• Government-welfare programs are meant to be a safety net and not trap families in dependency.
  — Arthur B. Laffer, National Review, 18 Oct. 2023
• The war’s main effect, however, has been to drive home the political price of energy dependency on a country that is ready, able, and determined to use it as leverage.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Mar. 2023
• As a result, Germany’s dependency on cheap Russian gas — once more than half its overall gas imports — decreased to less than 10 percent in August.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2022
• The idea is to shed the welfare-state dependency that comes with territoriality.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 2 Feb. 2023
• Lee is the oldest of three siblings, and his brother, a plumber, and sister, a nurse specializing in alcohol dependency, both still live in Yorkshire, not far from his mother and father.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2022
• There’s some overlap between codependency and dependency, but the behaviors aren’t the same.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 2 Nov. 2022
• As always, the show will explore our relationship with our planet as the dancers explore climate change, pollution and oil dependency — through dance.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2023
• But Smith developed a dependency on pain killers after the procedure, says Missy.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
• Drinking excessive amounts of caffeine—whether from tea or other beverages—can also lead to a dependency, Davis added.
  — Lauren Manaker Ms, Rdn, Health, 13 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024