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count (on or upon)

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as in to depend (on or upon)

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That means investors shouldn't expect borrowing costs to quickly return to the lower levels that prevailed before the latest inflationary pressures.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
This powerful radio telescope is expected to find tens of thousands of FRBs, a major boon for cosmology.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2026

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