Words similar to dependency

Example sentences for: dependency

How can you use “dependency” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Welfare dependency among blacks remained at a high level until 1995, the year before the welfare system was radically reformed (when there was already a lot of talk of reform in the air).
Is your position that welfare mothers were better off in dependency and close to their kids rather than in work and distant (for some of the time) from their kids?
The advocates say the finding goes beyond existing law and is unrealistic because some renewed contacts often prove unavoidable in domestic abuse cases, which involve economic and family dependency and other complications of daily living.
Patients assigned to dependency levels of three or higher were considered to be dependent.
Unlike the novelist, who invents (supposedly) his characters, or the historian, who grapples with a populous cast, the biographer enters into a curious intimacy with the person being written about, a relationship charged with ambivalence, resentment, love, dependency, and all the myriad other emotions that crowd in whenever we allow ourselves to become intimate with another.