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
Each side has taken steps to lessen dependencies on the other.
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Youyou Zhou, Washington Post, 14 May 2026
Preventing this crisis will require the United States to not just onshore previous-generation dependencies, but lead in production of the next generation of battery technology.
—Gene Berdichevsky, Fortune, 14 May 2026
While the speaker’s comments might have been perceived as tone-deaf to a group of students entering an uncertain job market, the reaction itself reveals a deeper, more complex tension between our fear of the future and our current dependencies.
—Jj Jasser, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2026
The existence of audience active search and ritualistic forms of consumption is also determined by contextual factors that include social stability, structural dependencies between media and other social systems, and interpersonal discourse networks.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
The popular code library is just one example of the broader problem of critical software dependencies that have never been seriously audited.
—Evan Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026
The developer just adds it to their dependencies and calls a function to wrap the key.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026
These images hold an application’s source code and all the tools, dependencies, and libraries an application’s code needs to run as a container.
—Felysha Walker, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
The new framework removes these dependencies by learning from non-visual sensor data.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Apr. 2026
Youyou Zhou, Washington Post, 14 May 2026
Preventing this crisis will require the United States to not just onshore previous-generation dependencies, but lead in production of the next generation of battery technology.
—Gene Berdichevsky, Fortune, 14 May 2026
While the speaker’s comments might have been perceived as tone-deaf to a group of students entering an uncertain job market, the reaction itself reveals a deeper, more complex tension between our fear of the future and our current dependencies.
—Jj Jasser, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2026
The existence of audience active search and ritualistic forms of consumption is also determined by contextual factors that include social stability, structural dependencies between media and other social systems, and interpersonal discourse networks.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
The popular code library is just one example of the broader problem of critical software dependencies that have never been seriously audited.
—Evan Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026
The developer just adds it to their dependencies and calls a function to wrap the key.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026
These images hold an application’s source code and all the tools, dependencies, and libraries an application’s code needs to run as a container.
—Felysha Walker, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
The new framework removes these dependencies by learning from non-visual sensor data.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Apr. 2026
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 16 May. 2026.
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