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UK
/ˌɪndɪpˈɛndəns/
]
[ US /ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəns/ ]
[ US /ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəns/ ]
NOUN
- a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail
How To Use Independence In A Sentence
- The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour.
- Some children may require a great deal of support as they acquire the social skills necessary for maximum independence.
- Teenage children begin to assert their independence and this can lead to a good deal of friction in the family.
- Teenage children begin to assert their independence and this can lead to a good deal of friction in the family.
- The transfer of control to the patient also provides the priceless gift of independence. Times, Sunday Times
- Its independence may encourage it to pursue a course of narrow self-interest rather than the public interest. Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
- The Guidance concentrates on the organizational status of internal audit and the objectivity of internal auditors in achieving the requisite independence.
- She said the new playground would help give the children greater independence.
- So numerous and various were the influences, formative and impellent, which combined to bring the colonies up to the precise ripening-point of their independence, as to make it difficult to assign each its proper force. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
- Federal Government is the exclusive judge of the extent as well as the limitations of its power, it seems to me to be utterly perversive of the sovereignty and independence of the States. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader