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I think the main reason OOP has a well-known term and pattern for dependency injection is to differentiate these two (out of multiple) options:
However, this becomes less of a pattern in functional programming as you wouldn't make such objects to begin with. In FP, you pass all parameters where a function is invoked, and DI just becomes using generic parameters. You wouldn't instantiate a dependency on each function call after all.
As this is such a minor change, it's not really talked about much and it's not really a pattern,