Example Sentences

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If you give him one penny of your own money, it will open up a transactional codependence between you and this man, who is a virtual stranger.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

It’s a reminder that what often looks like dominance in the global economy may instead be symptomatic of a pathological codependence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

So, too, in cooking for other people, could I supply that nurture, that codependence.

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2022

But I needed to find the love and codependence that was there in this odd, specific relationship.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2022

In the tormentor/tormentee relationship between Gilfoyle and Dinesh, viewers could also see a productive rivalry that degrades into mutually assured destruction and a strange form of codependence.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2019