How to Use dependency in a Sentence

dependency

noun
  • Could reducing our Shakespeare dependency be a boon, long term, to theaters that have held him up for so long as peerless?
    Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2022
  • The European Union has tried for years to cut its dependency on Russian natural gas.
    Charles Riley, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Social media dependency is a real problem, recent data shows.
    Renée Onque, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Vaping, while less dangerous than smoking, still poses health risks and potential dependency.
    Asmae Fahmy, Verywell Health, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The previous article in this series, about reducing our dependency on fossil fuels, is available here.
    Priya Shukla, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The galloping pace of the storytelling does skirt some of the uglier facets of alcoholism and the day-to-day difficulties of living with temptation and dependency.
    Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Europe and Russia are working to reduce their co-dependency, which could benefit gas exporters in the U.S. and elsewhere.
    Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Along with high levels of violent crime, which had their primary impact on low-income communities, came sharp rises in welfare dependency and hundreds of thousands of job losses.
    Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2022
  • There’s no dependency here, and no one else who can get me home, but me.
    Emily Zebel, Longreads, 23 May 2024
  • Williams had been open about his struggles with drug dependency in the past.
    Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 16 May 2022
  • That dependency is in the past, and so are some more brutal killing methods.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The changes come as the nation rethinks its dependency on cars.
    Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024
  • Long distances became the norm, long commutes a habit, and car dependency the rule.
    Carlos Moreno, Fortune, 7 May 2024
  • At the same time, the lessons of the last few years have made clear that there’s no silver bullet to curtailing the world’s dependency on China.
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2022
  • An author would need to contact the company to take over one of those dependencies at this point.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 1 July 2024
  • The European Union is trying to wean itself off Russian gas in a response to the war in Ukraine, with a plan to cut dependency by two thirds this year.
    Arne Delfs, Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The closures helped Moseson, who lives off Lower Great Highway, ween her from her car dependency.
    Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Europe gets 40% of its gas and 25% of its oil from Russia, and since the war, has scrambled to set out proposals to reduce its dependency.
    Fox News, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Our clients are moving away from a dependency on one country.
    Paul Berger, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The flared soles increase your dependency on the cushioning to absorb shock.
    Laura Lancaster, Outdoor Life, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Summers said that kind of dependency did not exist in the U.S., and could prove to be the difference between a severe recession and a mild one.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The dependency on commodities can lead to boom-and-bust cycles because their prices swing with changes in supply and demand.
    Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Fashion doesn’t have the same remit, of course, but its reliance on the past and dependency on nostalgia finds it in a repeat-rewind pattern.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 11 July 2024
  • The dependency on video calls in virtual work settings has increased tenfold, and that gives rise to the big question of Zoom backgrounds.
    Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
  • The dependency on cars is clear in Metro’s own ridership numbers.
    Rachel Urangastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
  • Achieve a green oil-dependency along the lines of contemporary Europe.
    Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The dependency on fossil fuel, is something people are starting to get much more aware of.
    Ed Garsten, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • Russia supplies around 40% of the EU’s natural gas, a dependency that has cast a shadow over Europe’s response to the war.
    Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Moreover, even though overt colonial rule was largely gone by the 1960s, the Cold War imposed another set of dependencies.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2024
  • However, such dominance has thrown up growing concerns about dependency on a few powerful entities, potential risks to data sovereignty and the overall lack of competition in this space.
    Nicola Sfondrini, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024

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