The phrase "a cycle of dependence" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where individuals or groups rely on each other in a repetitive manner, often leading to a lack of independence.
Example: "The community found itself trapped in a cycle of dependence on external aid, making it difficult to achieve self-sufficiency."
Alternatives: "a pattern of reliance" or "a loop of dependency."
Keeping twins in the same classes contributes to a cycle of dependence that will be much harder to break later on.
If the drug wore off sooner, patients could be at risk of anticipating future doses and beginning a cycle of dependence.
He attacks Mr. Rangel as a "poster child for everything wrong with Washington," and he says he will wean welfare recipients from their addiction to handouts with jobs brought to the community with tax breaks, breaking "a cycle of dependence".
"A lot of the things happening today have made us continuously dependent on foreign inputs, whether it's agriculture or other things," says farmers' leader Teava Iro, who argues that there needs to be much more investment, otherwise the few farmers who remain risk being locked into a cycle of dependence.
A system developed entirely by a cycle of dependence relation between individual systems, as here, resembles a simple taxonomy, with one notational difference that its branches move sideways.
Leaders need to follow Senator Johnson's lead and not only demand answers to the questions of exploding enrollment and skyrocketing spending, but start helping to move millions of able-bodied adults on Medicaid up the economic ladder to work instead of setting up a cycle of dependence.
Despite a lifetime of hardship, they're still fighting, and beneath Dirty Mark's optimism and Chris's angry diatribe, the men were trapped in a cycle of drug dependence and mental illness a symptom of the crippling, larger issue of homelessness and substance abuse in the city.
Consequently, these women are effectively trapped in a cycle of alcohol dependence, which is challenging enough to recover from even when appropriate resources are available and accessible.
When she leaves school and comes to stay with him indefinitely, the two of them fall apart in a cycle of co-dependence that is one of the darkest and most authentic representations of teenage life I have ever seen.
McGeary, a psychologist who studies addiction at Brown University, will then trace the pattern from the peak, down and back along the base of the graph, again and again, creating a messy triangle that signifies a messy cycle of dependence linking alcohol to anxiety.
Combined with a lack of education and formal marketable job skills to enable them to generate income, participants became trapped in a negative cycle of dependence and poverty.
