How to Use interdependence in a Sentence

interdependence

noun
  • This interdependence has been key to our success as a species.
    Robin G. Nelson, Scientific American, 15 Feb. 2022
  • And this interdependence between tech and trust is only set to get stronger.
    Andrew Dunbar, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • The only interdependence is between the finish of one task and the start of the next and at the completion signal that releases the car back into the pit street.
    Luc Hennekens, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The movie, a dramatization of life in the Chino prison, depicts friendships forged across racial lines and built on trust and interdependence.
    Dana Walters, The Conversation, 14 June 2019
  • Through Peace’s story, Ejiofor explores the violent impact of the carceral state and the fraught interdependence of a father and his son.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Russia’s war on Ukraine was a wake-up call for Germany, which for decades had bet that trade and economic interdependence with Moscow would keep the peace in Europe.
    New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The policy also reflects the interdependence of the two economies.
    Grady McGregor, Fortune, 8 June 2020
  • One of the fundamental differences between a team and a work group is the interdependence.
    George Bradt, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • And so how does this idea of interdependence mesh with your concept of emergent strategy?
    Justin Scott Campbell, Longreads, 24 Apr. 2018
  • In the trade complex that snakes 54 miles from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, interdependence is made manifest.
    Katia Dmitrieva, Bloomberg.com, 27 June 2018
  • The Iranian revolution shocked the world and shook the very bases of petrodollar interdependence.
    Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Will long weeks of quarantine lead to a greater need for isolation – for those who can afford it – or foster even greater interdependence?
    Sunaina Kumar, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Apr. 2020
  • This metaphor implies both an act of buffering and a condition of interdependence.
    Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
  • This means putting aside blustery talk of a national divorce between red and blue states in favor of a discourse of interdependence.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But there’s also such an interdependence there too, right?
    Hazlitt, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Instead, the interdependence that has stayed in my mind concerns this book’s transmission.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The scramble to return the turbine shows how four months of war and waves of Western sanctions are running up against decades of economic interdependence between Russia and the West.
    Matthew Dalton, WSJ, 17 July 2022
  • Putting care—not just care work, but care—at the center of our economy, our politics, is to orient ourselves around our interdependence.
    Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Talbot here is somber, stately; the end of the pilgrimage is in sight, but the dancers are still on their own journeys of interdependence and reconciliation.
    BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2021
  • At the same time, Elena is deeply jealous—a layer that only fuels their interdependence.
    Kate Cray, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Migrants like Gassama are part of a world system that, though marked in so many ways by globalization and interdependence, throws up barriers to their dreams.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 31 May 2018
  • Remove the circle of interdependence and losses pile up.
    The Hunger Coalition, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • At the plan’s start, the team argued, North Korea and the United States had to find ways to build trust and interdependence, calling that a prerequisite for long-term denuclearization.
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 1 July 2018
  • And a lack of forest diversity can be bad for species that require interdependence.
    Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The interdependence built up under Nafta may prove more durable than Nafta itself.
    Jacob M. Schlesinger, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2017
  • In an ideal world, Green’s dream is about self-resilience and a desire for interdependence for communities of color.
    Cheryl Morrow, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2019
  • At that point, the interdependence idea was just a personal philosophy, their approach to life.
    Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, 8 June 2018
  • This interdependence defines our lives and gives them meaning.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The idea was to create new networks of trade within the Colonies, replacing Colonists’ dependence on Britain with mutual interdependence.
    Barbara Clark Smith, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Does that mean that accepting interdependence would alleviate the worker shortage?
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024

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