as in dependences
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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Helping to support organisations on publishing information on their impacts and dependencies in the short, medium and long term will be crucial in tracking progress.
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Amy Nguyen, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Beijing, meanwhile, has averted its gaze from Moscow’s belligerence in Africa while fostering new dependencies and saddling more countries with unsustainable debt.
—Antony J. Blinken, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024
Amy Nguyen, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Beijing, meanwhile, has averted its gaze from Moscow’s belligerence in Africa while fostering new dependencies and saddling more countries with unsustainable debt.
—Antony J. Blinken, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Dependencies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dependencies. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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