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as in to rely
to place reliance or trust
I know I can always depend on you for help when I really need it
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Recent Examples of depend
The facility has 10 distinct jails, with a daily population that fluctuates depending on the city's crime rates and judicial processes.
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Plausible deniability at its worst or best, depending on your perspective.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
The future for the businesses depends in part on how quickly the city can get permits to add the left-turn lanes on Fairbanks, which is a state road and requires approval from the Florida Department of Transportation.
—Silas Morgan, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2024
For example, this Patagonia Women’s Re-tool Hybrid Pullover is 50 percent off and can be layered up or down depending on your needs.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Plausible deniability at its worst or best, depending on your perspective.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
The future for the businesses depends in part on how quickly the city can get permits to add the left-turn lanes on Fairbanks, which is a state road and requires approval from the Florida Department of Transportation.
—Silas Morgan, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2024
For example, this Patagonia Women’s Re-tool Hybrid Pullover is 50 percent off and can be layered up or down depending on your needs.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
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Scandia, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, provides a haven for older adults seeking freedom and community.Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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The series is based on the South Korean format created by Mun Hwa Broadcasting Corp.Michael Schneider, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
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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
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Rather than spending countless hours manually crunching numbers in spreadsheets, employees will increasingly be able to rely on intelligent systems to do the heavy lifting.David Henkin, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Kim Kardashian Admits This Crazy-Sounding Rumor About Her Is Actually True By Jane LaCroix Contributing Entertainment Writer 1 Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Kim Kardashian has found a way to turn an unfortunate injury into a fashionable statement.Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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My wife doesn’t want the kiss and turns her head away.Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 18 Dec. 2024
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As for Hostage’s parent, Holding Morelli counts 330 employees and totaled 86 million euros in sales last year.Sandra Salibian, WWD, 20 Dec. 2024
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And while the extra hour of sleep was appreciated on Nov. 3, many are counting down the days for the sun to set later at night.Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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Do a standing hip hinge as follows: Stand straight with your feet shoulder-width apart. Shift your weight back onto your heels and hinge forward at your hips—do not bend over at your waist.Aubrey Bailey, PT, DPT, CHT, Verywell Health, 20 Nov. 2024
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The bounds of the potential destruction will hinge only on the will, and the restraint, of both human and machine.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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Escape a sun that’s going supernova, challenge a monkey to a dance battle, try out some cool hoverboard tricks, fight an evil kitty and ride everything from gravity bikes to a sandshark.Jennifer Maas, Variety, 13 Dec. 2024
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Sony’s plan to build an entire franchise out of standalone films about Peter Parker’s nemeses always read as a transparent attempt at riding Marvel Studios’ coattails post-Spider-Man: Homecoming.Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Depend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depend. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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