adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be addicted to drugs/dependent on drugs (= be unable to stop taking drugs )
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People who are addicted to drugs need help.
dependent clause
economically dependent on (= depending on someone or something for money )
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The country is still economically dependent on agriculture.
heavily dependent/reliant/influenced
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Britain is heavily dependent on imports for its raw materials.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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What form or shape your life takes is also dependent largely upon your choices.
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Sensitivity to sound is also dependent on the stage of sleep the sleeper is in.
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Others demonstrated that people's post-school careers were also dependent upon their social class background.
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If welfare aided economic growth it was also dependent on it.
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To an extent the penned hands were also dependent on the nationality of the scribe or where he had been trained.
as
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Socially, he's not as dependent on the company of others as the endomorph.
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But not all mammals are as dependent upon their eyes as you.
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There is a dispute about which units matter, or even whether units matter at all except as dependent variables.
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With £50m capital we could surely produce something; prevent patients becoming as dependent .
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A relative clause counts as dependent whereas an adjective modifying a noun clearly does not.
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It is as dependent upon reason as is everything else.
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Traditionally, women have been viewed as dependent and passive, and males as aggressive and assertive.
completely
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He's completely dependent on us.
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Like at boot camp, soldiers going through specialized training are completely dependent on their drill sergeants and instructors.
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Nuclear weapons and their associated command, control and communications systems are completely dependent on computers and microchips.
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Nothing is more soul-destroying than being completely dependent on another person.
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I now realized that we had no idea where he lived, and therefore were completely dependent on him turning up.
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But they're still completely dependent on the staff at Vale Wildlife Rescue.
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These would no longer be parasitic, completely dependent on bourgeois society and playing no productive role.
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The dangers of a system where those who have care of children are completely dependent on another person are obvious.
economically
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It feeds off the passions of a small and economically dependent country and the emotional demands it places on the game.
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The inner ring is economically dependent on core Tyneside for the bulk of its employment opportunities.
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A subscription would make Leapor economically dependent upon the goodwill of the wealthy.
entirely
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You're not entirely dependent on your husband.
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Although they worked through institutions, they had no regular sources of income and were entirely dependent on providence.
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The National Blood Transfusion Service is entirely dependent on voluntary blood donors.
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She could move little more than her eyes, and she remained entirely dependent on her iron tomb for breath.
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Beyond that, the matter is entirely dependent upon agreement.
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Travel and tourism is now the world's biggest industry, and many countries are almost entirely dependent on tourism.
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Through incubation and fledging, it is entirely dependent on the care of its adopted parents.
heavily
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By contrast, taxpayer standing is likely to be heavily dependent on the detailed facts.
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The university research covers fundamental and applied research in various disciplines and is heavily dependent on direct and indirect government funding.
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But the catering is also heavily dependent on vending machines, which operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Britain is very vulnerable to these currency movements because we are a medium-sized economy heavily dependent on imports and exports.
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Personality based depression happens to people with poor self-image, or to some one who is heavily dependent on others for emotional support.
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A failing of systems such as Jelinek's is that they are heavily dependent on the size of lexicon used.
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Questions on data availability are likely to be particularly important where users are heavily dependent on secondary sources.
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Within this, the regime was heavily dependent upon the civil administration.
highly
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Success in computation relating to time intervals is highly dependent on a number of factors and there fore is variable.
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Picture quality is highly dependent on your location and even your body movement.
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Since the value of the resulting output is highly dependent on these components, they should be given early and careful consideration.
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Such an economy was highly dependent on a vast mass of skilled labour and a greater horde of the lesser skilled.
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However, most of them were affiliated to political parties and highly dependent on their parties' priorities.
increasingly
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In practice, he or she became increasingly dependent also on ministers for advice.
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They found themselves becoming increasingly dependent on their dealer's advice, at the same time sensing it might be fatal.
largely
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The force of this affirmation, however, is largely dependent upon the continuous union of man and nature in the Over-Soul.
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Maturation studies, based on geochemical analysis, demonstrate that gas-generative maturity is largely dependent on Jurassic burial.
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Huge growth in the service sector is largely dependent on people and not machines.
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Again the permeability is largely dependent upon sediment sorting and the presence of cements, or authigenic growths in the pore throats.
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This, however, is highly speculative and largely dependent on a perpetual bull market.
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Selection of patients for treatment is largely dependent upon referral from a district centre.
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Even at the best companies, family friendliness is often episodic, largely dependent on relationships with an immediate supervisor.
less
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To make the Ping Tiao less dependent on us.
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Upjohn Inc. and Philip Morris Cos. whose profits are seen as less dependent on rapid growth.
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The next group of suggestions was less dependent on extra funds.
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Prices had not climbed as fast in the first place and were less dependent on volatile international buying.
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Though petroleum still makes up four-fifths of export earnings, he has made the country less dependent on oil.
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Other changes meant that agricultural workers became less dependent on their employers for lodgings and could therefore marry younger.
more
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Instead it became more dependent upon how frequently they watched television news.
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Too often the product of their interventions is a student who becomes more dependent , insecure, and angry.
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Thus lawyer B was more dependent on the profession than on his clients.
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But a work-inhibited student is clearly more dependent upon positive relationships than a confident student.
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New industrial methods based on assembly lines and continuous processes were typically more dependent on electricity than the ones they replaced.
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The Soviet Union today is more dependent on the world market, and world resources, not less.
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Lay officers were more dependent on the rewards of their secular offices to provide for themselves and for their families.
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As his political stature has shrunk, he has grown correspondingly more dependent on the army.
so
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In these circumstances it is not clear whether or not the effectiveness of the intervention is quite so dependent on operating experience.
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In architecture you are so dependent on clients, on craftsmen, on zoning laws, budgets.
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Artists and journalists are not so dependent upon their colleagues' approval but can appeal directly to the laity.
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Here, men are not so dependent on the opinions of others.
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Feminists argue that women should not be so dependent on the opinion of men.
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In an age so dependent on the horse, the depth and width of interest can barely be exaggerated.
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I couldn't dream of what I was going to do because you become so dependent on money.
still
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But many older titles are still dependent upon an understanding of its conveyancing procedures.
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We are also still dependent on parental transport.
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But developing countries are still dependent for all their foreign currency earnings upon the fluctuations of commodity prices on the world market.
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I was still unemployed and struggling financially, still dependent on my parents and my girlfriend.
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Is that why you hate him, because you're still dependent on him.
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In most States the army was still dependent largely on voluntary enlistment.
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Nine of them are still dependent on just one crop for over 70 percent of their income.
too
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It also warned that exports were still too dependent on copper.
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Perhaps they have allowed the child to become too dependent on the baby-sitter.
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We will encourage enhanced recovery of oil from the North Sea and avoid becoming too dependent on imported fuel.
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The congressman can become too dependent on his staff.
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This was usually discouraged in case the wild ape became too dependent on hand-outs.
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He had indeed allowed himself to become too dependent on her, and he had paid the price of it.
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This would help expand Moby's loyalties and prevent him from becoming too dependent on his main daytime companion.
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You must avoid being manipulated by other people or letting yourself become too dependent on others for your financial security.
totally
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The quality of our products and services is totally dependent on the quality and commitment of our people.
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Its inhabitants, including 230,000 refugees from surrounding areas, remained totally dependent on outside food supplies.
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I didn't want to be totally dependent on any one source of income or any one group.
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Iris is totally dependent on Donald who retired early to care for his wife.
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With wild cats it ensures that the animals do not become totally dependent on one kind of prey.
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She is totally dependent on her daughter for help with bathing, washing, dressing and feeding.
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People saw themselves as being totally dependent on top management.
very
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They are made very dependent on a variety of specialists for information and advice ... and in fact so are the parents.
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A work unit holds a power base of centrality if other departments are very dependent on it in the work flow.
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Therefore most data are retrieved on reflection as soon after the situation as possible, and thus are very dependent upon memory.
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The need for specialised local services is very dependent upon provision by other groups in the area.
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This trim offset is virtually constant and is not very dependent on forward speed.
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But the quality of the reflection is very dependent on the questioning skills of the teacher.
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The interpretation of the result is however very dependent on which is the test variable.
wholly
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Instead of being a development of an inherent or generally available faculty, it is a specialized technique wholly dependent on specific training.
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Most of our employees are wholly dependent on their employment with us for their survival.
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But this area, too, was wholly dependent on engineers for its existence.
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It evoked a huge and apparently permanent armament industry, now wholly dependent ... on government contracts.
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Ecgberht may have received wide support in Kent and can not necessarily be regarded as wholly dependent on Offa for his kingship.
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But they are still highly circumscribed in their authority, and wholly dependent upon their salaried employment.
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Accordingly, he was wholly dependent upon Adenauer for his position, and could present no political threat.
■ NOUN
child
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Household and family About a third of all households in Great Britain have at least one dependent child .
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A large number of dependent children are affected by unemployment.
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The definition of dependent child is one for whom you are receiving child benefit.
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The proportion of dependent children living in one parent families has increased by more than 50 percent since the early 1970s.
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The claimants were nearly always women, and three out of four of them had dependent children .
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She has one dependent child aged 16.
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The latest estimates suggest that more than one million dependent children are in such families.
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This compared with 10 percent of two parent families with dependent children .
clause
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This should be written in short grammatical sentences with the minimum of dependent clauses .
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The example below uses an independent and dependent clause .
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The dependent clause functions as a substitution item in a frame, the frame being the rest of the sentence.
diabetes
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Introduction Diabetic nephropathy kills many patients with insulin dependent diabetes .
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Results - Twenty seven subjects had non-insulin dependent diabetes , 32 had impaired glucose tolerance, and 42 were normoglycaemic.
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Among the papers is a short report about self monitoring of triglyceride concentrations in non-insulin dependent diabetes in 12 patients.
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Non-insulin dependent diabetes was defined according to the World Health Organisation fasting criteria.
variable
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There is a dispute about which units matter, or even whether units matter at all except as dependent variables .
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Be sure to indicate in your drawing the independent and dependent variables .
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Due to the simultaneity between the dependent variable and the current eurobond yield, the equation was estimated by instrumental variables.
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The problem is not primarily a structural one - structures are dependent variables .
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Therefore, the regression coefficient is often considered as a measure of the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable.
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His master explanatory variable is market capitalism and his dependent variable is peasant rebellion.
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As a dependent variable , post-materialism is seen to be a symptom of economic modernization.
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Technically speaking, he tries to account for a dependent variable without relating it to any independent variables.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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About 10% of the population is dependent on some form of drug.
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Do you have any dependent children?
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Far more people are dependent on alcohol than we realize.
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It's almost impossible to take tranquilizers for long without becoming dependent .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the absence of agricultural support, the women and children become dependent on government.
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It is not only the United States that has become dependent on imports of oil.
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She has one dependent child aged 16.
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Since the value of the resulting output is highly dependent on these components, they should be given early and careful consideration.
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The dependence thesis does not claim that authorities always act for dependent reasons, but merely that they should do so.
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The whole thing is about gaining trust, is dependent on trust.
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With wild cats it ensures that the animals do not become totally dependent on one kind of prey.