overreliance

British  

/ ˌəʊvərɪˈlaɪəns /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

This overreliance on foreign sources for the medications taken by Americans, the Senate report said, poses a national security risk.

From Los Angeles Times

The E.U.’s funding for artillery shells does respond to an acute immediate need, a need that Europe rightly regards in its own interests given its overreliance on U.S. brawn, and a dawning future in which Washington may shift its strategic gaze toward China.

From Washington Post

An overreliance on consultants, they argue, is actually to blame for public sector debacles like the rollout of Healthcare.gov.

From Slate

In 2019, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press cautioned that “overclassification is an even bigger problem in an age of leak-hunting,” and later that year, the Atlantic magazine’s Mike Giglio concluded, “American officials classify too much information, from the trivial to the politically inconvenient. The overreliance on secrecy invites abuse.”

From Washington Post

Holtz, the moderator, cautioned about an overreliance on government.

From Washington Post