as in dependence
the quality or state of needing something or someone
she was concerned about his heavy dependency on coffee to get him moving in the morning
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Recent Examples of dependency
Domestic recycling from secondary sources represents one pathway to reduce that dependency.
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Aditya Jadhav,
Interesting Engineering,
30 June 2026
For incident response agents, this means producing an investigation trail with relevant alerts, logs, metrics, deployment and infrastructure events, and dependencies.
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Raman Varma,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
Carver is credited with developing more than 300 products from peanuts and 118 from sweet potatoes to help Southern farmers diversify crops and escape cotton dependency that had damaged soil (and lives) over decades of monocropping.
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Sandra Guzmán,
USA Today,
29 June 2026
Toy Story 5 wishes to keep children in a state of dependency on their toys, just as the franchise itself seeks to keep its aging viewership in a state of perpetual nostalgia.
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Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
27 June 2026
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Aditya Jadhav,
Interesting Engineering,
30 June 2026
For incident response agents, this means producing an investigation trail with relevant alerts, logs, metrics, deployment and infrastructure events, and dependencies.
—
Raman Varma,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
Carver is credited with developing more than 300 products from peanuts and 118 from sweet potatoes to help Southern farmers diversify crops and escape cotton dependency that had damaged soil (and lives) over decades of monocropping.
—
Sandra Guzmán,
USA Today,
29 June 2026
Toy Story 5 wishes to keep children in a state of dependency on their toys, just as the franchise itself seeks to keep its aging viewership in a state of perpetual nostalgia.
—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
27 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for dependency
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dependency
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The next jolt was Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which spiked energy costs throughout Europe as its leaders tried to boycott their years of dependence on the Kremlin’s gas supplies.
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Efforts to reduce dependence on Russian fossil fuels by accelerating the transition to renewables increased energy costs and weighed on industrial competitiveness in the short term.
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Downtown Sacramento businesses remain skeptical that the state’s July return-to-office mandate affecting roughly 95,000 employees will actually materialize, even as foot traffic sits at 85% of April 2019 levels and local leaders rethink the urban core’s heavy reliance on office space.
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The concern that humanity’s reliance on AI systems will stunt people’s ability to think and reason for themselves is one that AI companies should address,Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark said at a recent Aspen Institute event.
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“Dependency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dependency. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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