as in dependences
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 dependencies
Both assumptions break when the system composes its own dependencies at runtime.
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Pranay Ahlawat, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Survival requires understanding how platforms collapse distribution, bundle features into defaults, and remove the dependencies third parties rely on.
—Matt Rogers, Fortune, 30 May 2026
Ditching conventional hardware and data dependencies, XPENG’s Robotaxi operates entirely without LiDAR or high-definition maps.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
With very few exceptions, an end was declared, not only to empires, but also to city-states, duchies, principalities, emirates, sultanates, caliphates, khanates, agencies, princely states, colonies, suzerains, dependencies, mandates, tributaries, condominia and protectorates.
—Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
Each side has taken steps to lessen dependencies on the other.
—Youyou Zhou, Washington Post, 14 May 2026
This is why nations must rapidly work toward an ability to develop, control, and deploy AI infrastructure without external dependencies.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Security Risks Relying on AI assistants like Copilot poses security risks, such as injecting vulnerabilities, hardcoded secrets and insecure dependencies.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Pranay Ahlawat, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Survival requires understanding how platforms collapse distribution, bundle features into defaults, and remove the dependencies third parties rely on.
—Matt Rogers, Fortune, 30 May 2026
Ditching conventional hardware and data dependencies, XPENG’s Robotaxi operates entirely without LiDAR or high-definition maps.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
With very few exceptions, an end was declared, not only to empires, but also to city-states, duchies, principalities, emirates, sultanates, caliphates, khanates, agencies, princely states, colonies, suzerains, dependencies, mandates, tributaries, condominia and protectorates.
—Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
Each side has taken steps to lessen dependencies on the other.
—Youyou Zhou, Washington Post, 14 May 2026
This is why nations must rapidly work toward an ability to develop, control, and deploy AI infrastructure without external dependencies.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Security Risks Relying on AI assistants like Copilot poses security risks, such as injecting vulnerabilities, hardcoded secrets and insecure dependencies.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dependencies
dependences
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So, here was Ondaatje just writing about his day-t0-day, grappling with the intense swings of emotion any parent must reckon with as their children grow into autonomy, forever leaving behind the heartbreakingly sweet (and frequently tedious) dependences of childhood.—
Jonny Diamond,
Literary Hub,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Dependencies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dependencies. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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