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
See All Example Sentences for dependency
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
Noun
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Its language about seeking opportunity rather than security, taking calculated risks, building, falling, succeeding, and refusing to trade dignity for dependence captured, almost perfectly, how my father thought about America.
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The Eola celebration was capped by a reenactment of the signing of the Declaration of In dependence.
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Hamilton coped best with adapting his driving style around Formula 1's new reliance on battery power to take pole position in qualifying for Saturday's sprint race.
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The investment also reflects a broader push across Europe to expand domestic chip manufacturing and reduce reliance on overseas production for strategically important technologies.
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“Dependency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dependency. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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