dependent
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The agency will also pay out benefits if you’re a dependent or survivor, if the worker whose record is being used earned at least 40 credits or lived in the U.S. for 10 years.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
Approximately 800,000 adults under age 64 without dependent children are expected to lose benefits, along with about 300,000 adults living with children age 14 or older.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
In Debel, close to the Israeli border, inhabitants prepared to celebrate Easter Sunday despite the sound of bombardment around their village, now almost totally cut off from the world and dependent on aid deliveries.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
Brazil’s coffee-growing monoculture left much of the country dependent on imported food, particularly white flour from the slave-worked mills of Richmond, which in turn encouraged the development of new capital-intensive wheat plantations in Virginia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Since the pigs cannot find food or even find their way around without sniffing, this mutilation makes them completely dependent on their human owners.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.