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as in anchor
something or someone to which one looks for support
he's been the family's foremost reliance in times of trouble many times
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as in dependency
the quality or state of needing something or someone
a baby's reliance on her parents his reliance on his next-door neighbor for all the local gossip
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Recent Examples of reliance
González also advocates a hardline stance on crime but criticizes Noboa’s reliance on foreign military contractors.
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Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
The third-year coach by way of stints as a player and later a coach on the West Coast also is different, evidenced by his reliance on analytics at a level matched by few other coaches currently in the game.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
The filing outlines various risk factors, including competition in the home furnishings sector, reliance on foreign manufacturing, and potential impacts of macroeconomic conditions.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2025
For example, the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) allows developers greater flexibility in how games are distributed and monetized by reducing reliance on app stores.
—Berkley Egenes, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
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Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
The third-year coach by way of stints as a player and later a coach on the West Coast also is different, evidenced by his reliance on analytics at a level matched by few other coaches currently in the game.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
The filing outlines various risk factors, including competition in the home furnishings sector, reliance on foreign manufacturing, and potential impacts of macroeconomic conditions.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2025
For example, the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) allows developers greater flexibility in how games are distributed and monetized by reducing reliance on app stores.
—Berkley Egenes, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reliance
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Our economic anchors — health care, professional services and public administration — continue to create jobs and opportunity.—
Shelonda Stokes,
Baltimore Sun,
6 Apr. 2025
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The always great Clark Gregg adds tragic anxiety in assuming Ray Wise’s film role as Don Hollenbeck — a CBS anchor who can’t get past the barbs in the press over his left-leaning past.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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By implementing regenerative agricultural practices, SRI focuses on enhancing soil health, conserving biodiversity, reducing chemical dependency, and promoting water conservation.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
10 Apr. 2025
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The nonprofit views its cash transfers not as handouts perpetuating a cycle of dependency, but as starting capital that recipients can use to invest in a new life.—
Erika Page,
Christian Science Monitor,
8 Apr. 2025
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Tariffs from Trump's first term and former President Joe Biden's technological restrictions on Chinese companies have pushed the tech giant to diversify its dependence on Chinese manufacturing.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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But reliance on outside sources risks creating dependence on them when local forces must ultimately take ownership of the fight themselves.—
Ido Levy,
The Conversation,
7 Apr. 2025
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This breach compromised over 3,000 sensitive files, including crucial records from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS), handing China insights into circumventing U.S. financial scrutiny, and threatening the integrity of our economic backbone.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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While advertisers leverage demand-side platforms (DSPs) to set up and launch their campaigns, ad exchanges are still the backbone of programmatic ad buying.—
Roman Vrublivskyi,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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For the first time, the French luxury house has opened the doors to one of its leather goods factories as part of its ongoing push to promote its pillar style.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
2 Apr. 2025
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Merchandise sales, often buoyed by collaborations, are one of the key potential pillars of LIV Golf club revenue along with sponsorships and prize money.—
Brendan Coffey,
Sportico.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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But the ubiquitous walls of video are a crutch in Cromer’s leaden production, creating a static disconnect between Clooney and the audience in moments that should feel the most urgently personal.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
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These absences, these crutches so often used to share the team’s load, were only compounded by the woeful start that Leeds made.—
Beren Cross,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Reliance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reliance. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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