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The Pentagon selected several contractors to build the satellites, so the military is not reliant on a single company.—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025 The Russian army, having shown itself moderately adaptable to modern warfare, will nonetheless be gutted of equipment, bereft of its best cadres, and reliant on foreign suppliers.—Jeremy Shapiro, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025 But Sudan and Egypt, both heavily reliant on the Nile’s waters for irrigation and electricity, have said the dam threatens national security, claims that Addis Ababa has rejected.—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025 Conventional synthetic fertilizers are based on a century-old process that’s heavily reliant on fossil fuels.—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reliant
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