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overreliance

British  
/ ˌəʊvərɪˈlaɪəns /

noun

  1. the state or fact of being too reliant on someone or something

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The legacy of BuzzFeed, then, is not a fully formed science of virality but a cautionary tale about overreliance on traffic.

From Washington Post

There, the Mandalorians who never left the home world tell Bo-Katan about how they were able to cultivate plants indigenous to Mandalore, which had not grown naturally for centuries because of the planet’s civil wars and overreliance on industrialization.

From New York Times

U.S. officials attributed their assessments to Russian commanders’ overreliance on the specialized units, which have been put to use as part of front-line infantry formations.

From Washington Post

“This tendency can be particularly harmful as models become increasingly convincing and believable, leading to overreliance on them by users.”

From Washington Times

These days, Rodríguez’s only product is her husband’s administration of Nuevo León, the border state whose long-established attractiveness to foreign investors has only been enhanced by the current “re-shoring” or “near-shoring” push to move away from an overreliance on trans-Pacific supply chains.

From Slate