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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
Continued reliance on discounts and other superficial metrics that indicate progress but do not demonstrate ultimate payments received is not sufficient for achieving results.
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Bruce Roffe,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Even small, consistent contributions can help build a financial cushion over time and reduce reliance on future paychecks.
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Faith Wakefield,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
Last month, Meta launched paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp in a push to diversify beyond its longtime reliance on advertising revenue.
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Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
Investors have also been concerned about Oracle’s reliance on OpenAI, a customer that is not yet profitable and is reportedly losing billions of dollars a year.
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Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
23 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for reliance
Bruce Roffe,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Even small, consistent contributions can help build a financial cushion over time and reduce reliance on future paychecks.
—
Faith Wakefield,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
Last month, Meta launched paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp in a push to diversify beyond its longtime reliance on advertising revenue.
—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
Investors have also been concerned about Oracle’s reliance on OpenAI, a customer that is not yet profitable and is reportedly losing billions of dollars a year.
—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
23 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for reliance
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reliance
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Katie Couric has had a prolific career in journalism—including becoming the first solo female anchor of an evening news program—but her career had rough beginnings that included sexism and harassment.
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Verhoeff was an anchor in the top four for North Dakota and was key on its power play with his booming shot.
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For healthcare organizations, investing in their own infrastructure may help reduce some of the dependencies and price fluctuations that may otherwise exist when relying on public cloud infrastructure.
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These dependencies present supply chain challenges as some of the import sources are located in adversarial or geopolitically unstable nations.
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More than an idyllic lakeside hamlet beloved by the international jet set, the northern Italian town of Como and the surrounding area are home to the country’s biggest silk-making districts, part of Italy’s fashion supply chain backbone.
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The Gilded Age fortunes that scandalized their contemporaries became, within a generation, the universities, museums and hospitals that form America’s civic backbone.
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The next jolt was Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which spiked energy costs throughout Europe as its leaders tried to boycott their years of dependence on the Kremlin’s gas supplies.
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Efforts to reduce dependence on Russian fossil fuels by accelerating the transition to renewables increased energy costs and weighed on industrial competitiveness in the short term.
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Personalized treatments are built around three pillars—energetic renewal, conscious longevity, and stress management—and integrated with the landscape and architecture of the property and the regional cuisine.
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This delightful journey starts by passing through a decorative iron gate supported by stone pillars.
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“Reliance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reliance. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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