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Today the state pension age is 66, but for people born after 1990 it's likely to be pushed higher to keep people working longer and reduce the old-age dependancy ratio.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025

It would seem that man, when he finds himself in the solitude of the ocean, feels the deepest how great is his dependancy on others for happiness.

From The Red Rover by Cooper, James Fenimore

He evidently thought as I did myself that they had learned their extraordinary gambit, perhaps in some old dependancy of Spain, from some young master of chess whose fame had not reached Europe.

From Tales of Wonder by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron

I'll rather choose to starve at large, than be, The gaudiest vassal to dependancy.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Cibber, Theophilus