depend
verb (used without object)
to rely; place trust (usually followed by on orupon ).
depended
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past participleof depend.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof depend.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
dependverb (used without object)to rely; place trust (usually followed by on orupon ).
Example Sentences
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Additional targets were hit in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates—also part of the supply chain that the Navy had depended on for decades.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi, a faculty member in Asian American studies, has depended on the program for her two children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
That finding suggests that the earliest metabolism depended much more heavily on the surrounding environment than modern cellular metabolism does.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Arm became known as the Switzerland of semiconductors because it supplied the foundation neutrally, without competing against the companies that depended on it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
This depended on their confidence in the reliability of measurements taken decades apart; others were quick to dismiss such findings as the result of defective technique.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
