Linguists debated whether the independent possessive should be classified with clitics or as a full noun phrase.

An independent genitive can indicate possession even when the noun it would normally modify is omitted.

Several independent scholars organized a conference to present their recent findings.

As an independent contractor, Maria manages her schedule and invoices clients directly.

After years of smart investments and frugal living, she finally became independently wealthy and was able to pursue her passions without worrying about money.

The researcher measured how changes in independent variables affected the outcome of the experiment.

In academic writing, independent clauses joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction create compound sentences.

After years of careful investing, she finally achieved independent means and no longer needed to work.

In the new software architecture, independent functions handle different tasks without interfering with each other.

The framework executes language-independent, enabling seamless interoperability between modules written in different languages.