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How to use the word -dependent in a Sentence?

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So here is our plan: In the coming weeks, the House will vote on the bill to lift the debt ceiling into the next year, save taxpayers trillions of dollars, make us less dependent on China, curb our inflation, all without touching social security and Medicare.

Speaker McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have a lot of new driver assistance features coming that are more tightly coupled with navigation, we don’t want to design these features in a way that are dependent on a person having a cellphone.

Mike Hichme

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

Napoleon Bonaparte

added by Normando
1 year ago

The evidence that you’ve heard shows that the defendant became so addicted and so dependent on the velocity of money that the millions of dollars in legal fees that he was receiving was not enough and so he started to steal. He stole by billing personal expenses to the firm ; he stole by stealing from his own family.

Prosecutor Creighton Waters

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While some species of nonhuman primates produce technologies that assist in foraging, humans are uniquely dependent on technology for survival. But the evolutionary origins of this reliance on technology for survival is shrouded in mystery.

Tom Plummer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These are the men and women who employ nearly half of all Americans, and they are barely hanging on by a thread thanks to the policies of this administration, which have resulted in 40-year high inflation, it is clear that this administration is crushing the dreams of entrepreneurs, making their businesses fail and forcing them to be dependent on the government.

Pete Stauber

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The length of the daylight is the primary trigger for leaves to change color in the fall, but then the timing and the quality of fall color is very dependent on weather and the changing climate.

Andy Finton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This leftist political strategy to win office and power relies on something very powerful: the desire to increase the number of Americans who are dependent on getting money that is taken from other citizens. Sadly, this strategy has worked for half a century! And now it works because Americans who are trapped in this nightmare do not want their government money taken away from them!

Star Parker

added by Normando
1 year ago

Everything that is directly or indirectly touching or dependent upon those really hot categories -- food and energy -- is also seeing faster rises, but it really is a broad-based increase.

Nikolai Roussanov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

COVID vaccines do not cause leukemia or diabetes, nor do they affect genetic development, cause tumor metastasis or antibody-dependent enhancement, and those are irresponsible, false information on the internet.

Wang Fusheng

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

We don’t want to be dependent on anything, especially something that makes us unhealthy.

Itai Danovitch

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You have to understand. Most people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured and so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.

Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999

added by DrRamon
1 year ago

A lot of industrial processes are heavily dependent on transportation.

Michael Englund

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China has always been pushing for more port infrastructure, but Russia was a bit reluctant until recently to build this kind of infrastructure, for fear of becoming too dependent on China, but now Russia has no choice.

Artyom Lukin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The economic outlook is highly dependent on the well-being of the American consumer, for many Americans looking for affordable pockets of housing, mid-sized cities remain a viable alternative, especially as the number of homes for sale has been on the rise, bringing fresh options.

George Ratiu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Putin's brutal and unprovoked war in Ukraine has further spotlighted the need to secure our critical supply chains so that our economy, our economic and our national security are not dependent on countries that don't share our values.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If someone is dependent on WIC, they have to walk in a store. That's the only place where they can physically get [formula], unfortunately, like the young lady Cierra was tryingto help, [parents on WIC] can’t go online and order the formula because [those outlets] don’t take WIC.

Tracy Cheatham

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Fed is still data dependent, i don't think The Fed wants to surprise the markets but the data could still surprise The Fed.

Sonal Desai

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The bill represents something of a paradox : it is an attempt to hold online platforms accountable for their role in facilitating online sexual abuse in a country with a domestic economy heavily dependent on the outsourcing of IT-BPO labor like social media content moderation from the global north.

Alden Sajor Marte-Wood

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There were also a few times we didn't get our complete orders. We would have to call several times to track down our food. We were completely dependent on them.

Walter Babij

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have prepared ourselves to be less dependent on Russian energy imports, we can reduce the imports, starting with coal, then oil. It will take more time to be independent from Russian natural gas imports, but we will continue so in the end we will be completely independent from Russia.

Christian Lindner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As long as it manages to divert most of its oil exports from Europe to Asia, the impact could be — relatively speaking — not massive. Otherwise, it would completely cripple the Russian economy, as it's heavily dependent on oil exports.

Claudio Galimberti

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Gas prices can not continue to be dependent on the whims of autocrats like Putin who can weaponize oil against us.

Raul Ruiz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One way in which [Trump] really affected American thinking was about the NATO alliance and what should happen to it. The NATO alliance is very important to Western security, but Europe needs to be responsible financially for itself and, frankly, ought to be a very leading force in NATO rather than be dependent upon the United States.

Dan Bishop

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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