How to Use interdependent in a Sentence

interdependent

adjective
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  • My hunger grew to witness a river teeming with wild salmon and a culture still interdependent with the bounty of the ocean.
    — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The two were interdependent and mutually reinforcing: Who else but a peer could tell the elite how to act, what to like, and what to buy?
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Because the data for each pair are interdependent, the data were analyzed at the level of the dyad.
    — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2012
  • Gallup officials said in the report that the categories are interdependent and well-being is more than the sum of the elements.
    — Will Egensteiner, Outside Online, 17 Sep. 2014
  • There’s a real need to recognize that this is an age in which countries are more interdependent.
    — Joshua Keating, Vox, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Fighting in Europe and the Middle East has revealed the downsides of interdependent economies.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • West Coast creatures had millions of years to evolve their interdependent lives, Carswell said.
    — Washington Post, 18 May 2018
  • This is the curse of humans’—really, most animals’—multicellular makeup: The cells within our bodies are so specialized, so interdependent, that their fates are lashed together even in death.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Over time, the hive of Stuyvesant Street businesses came to function as a world unto itself, all within a few yards of one another and all of them interdependent.
    — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
  • Our goal as parents is to raise children who are interdependent; young adults who rely both on others and themselves.
    — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • Our interdependent relationship requires both of us to have the grace to learn and grow together.
    — Alice Wong, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The failure of one system compounded and led to the failure of others, which highlights how interdependent the systems are, experts said.
    — James Barragán, Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Talks would be required because the space station is designed to be interdependent.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The overhaul has been complicated by the need to get the changes to work in conjunction with the plane's redundancies and with other interdependent systems.
    — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 17 June 2020
  • Those requests aren’t enough to overwhelm the system, but the surge is a reminder of just how interdependent, and sometimes fragile, the internet really is.
    — Brian Barrett, Wired, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The use of this sort of interdependent feedback loop is likely to increase in the future with the introduction of autonomous agents.
    — David Zuluaga Martínez, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
  • When qubits interact, their possible states become interdependent, each one’s chances of |0⟩ and |1⟩ hinging on those of the other.
    — Wired, 6 Jan. 2019
  • The message was clear and much repeated: the planet had become small and interdependent; the forces of slavery had set out to conquer the world; and the fate of freedom everywhere depended on their defeat.
    — Peter Slezkine, The New Republic, 22 May 2018
  • With warmer temperatures, most species moved their habits earlier, but interdependent species didn't always move at the same rate.
    — CBS News, 17 Apr. 2018
  • High-speed rail makes sense for Houston and Dallas, cities centered in metro areas of around 7 million residents each, 240 miles apart with interdependent economies.
    — Camille Squires, Quartz, 30 June 2021
  • White House officials say Russia and Europe are interdependent since the Kremlin relies on oil and gas revenue to fund its budget.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Part of the problem, former aides say, is the interdependent relationship between politicians and their staffs.
    — Lisa Lerer, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
  • This week’s cover, by Christoph Niemann, takes on the spread of the novel coronavirus, evoking a world in which the health of an individual and the health of the public seem, increasingly, to be interdependent.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
  • How did this particular framework evolve in your thinking, and in what ways are the components interdependent?
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Each of these factors affected the spread of the virus in complicated and interdependent ways, with unknown lags between when the changes occurred and when their effects might be expected to show up in the data.
    — Noah Haber, Wired, 21 Nov. 2020
  • The point is, the Arctic is climate-change ground zero, and Earth’s supra-systems are interconnected and interdependent.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2021
  • As a result of this interdependent ecosystem, attackers were able to exploit the flaw in VSA to infect as many as 1,500 organizations around the world with ransomware.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The human gut plays host to more than 100 trillion of these bacteria — a complex, interdependent microbial universe wedged between your ribcage and spine.
    — Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Pirates played a sordid, interdependent role in the development of the English colonies of North America.
    — Rinker Buck, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2018
  • The repetition of the interrogation scenes are played rigidly and stoically, while the scenes between the interdependent Chinese immigrants and their families or co-workers find the deep humanity between the lines.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 May 2024

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