How to Use codependence in a Sentence
codependence
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And then for me, my codependence was my dad left me and my mom at a young age.
—Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 24 Jan. 2021
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But few products illustrate the codependence quite like the soybean.
—Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Apr. 2018
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At the same time, Ethan and Harper begin to face the cracks in their own relationship, where their codependence veiled as closeness seem to push them further apart.
—Sara Klausing, Men's Health, 9 Dec. 2022
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As the bubbles converge, their codependence is a fragile balance maintained through faith.
—Danny Chau, The Atlantic, 30 July 2020
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For those of us who tend to anthropomorphize our cars, Hey Mercedes might lead to a whole new level of automotive codependence.
—Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 23 Mar. 2020
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Before long, the two embark on a furtive relationship based on support, guidance, control and codependence.
—Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
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In the new season, Tuca and Bertie struggle with the extent to which their codependence prevents them from forming other emotional attachments.
—The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2021
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The novels feel separated at birth; both are stories of enslavement, codependence, control of the future, and women whose will to sustain life is perverted by men.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
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Too much of her performance in this series, about two women whose codependence is built on various murders of husbands and boyfriends, current or former, is impossible.
—Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 4 May 2020
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Now in its second year since the border was closed to nonessential travels, people have adapted to new realities amid a growing debate about what looms ahead for a region whose codependence and uniformity is now in question.
—Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2021
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Interpersonal dynamics in rock bands are legendary for their baroque complexity, but even by the accustomed standards, CCR was a study in fraternal and antagonistic codependence.
—Elizabeth Nelson, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
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But compared with Castorf’s gleefully baffling staging, which often abandoned coherent storytelling altogether, Schwarz’s is fairly straightforward in its account of the codependence and acrimony running through a family.
—New York Times, 7 Aug. 2022
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