relied; relying
1
: to be dependent
the system on which we rely for water
2
: to have confidence based on experience
someone you can rely on
Examples of rely in a Sentence
rigorously tested the rope before starting out, for the rock climbers would be relying on it with their very lives
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David Henkin, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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The damage will be felt for years to come both within China and in countries that relied on strong Chinese demand to export their cars, commodities, and services.
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Hospitals on the South Side have long faced financial struggles partly because many serve populations that rely heavily on Medicaid, a state and federally funded health insurance program that often doesn’t reimburse hospitals as well for care as private insurance.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 17 Dec. 2024
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David Henkin, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
To form their answers, these LLMs rely on pretraining that metaphorically entails putting trillions of word fragments from existing texts, such as books and websites, into a large blender and coarsely mixing them.
—Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
The damage will be felt for years to come both within China and in countries that relied on strong Chinese demand to export their cars, commodities, and services.
—Daniel H. Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 17 Dec. 2024
Hospitals on the South Side have long faced financial struggles partly because many serve populations that rely heavily on Medicaid, a state and federally funded health insurance program that often doesn’t reimburse hospitals as well for care as private insurance.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Rely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rely. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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rely
verb
re·ly
ri-ˈlī 
relied; relying
1
: to have confidence based on experience
someone you can rely on
2
: to be dependent
the system on which we rely for water
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