reliances

noun

plural of reliance
1
as in anchors
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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Relevance
2
as in dependencies
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 Synonyms for reliances
  1. anchors
  2. dependencies
  3. backbones
  4. dependences
  5. pillars
Noun
  • The disruption extended far beyond the classroom, leaving communities to absorb the loss of institutions that had long served as neighborhood anchors.
    — Richard Fowler, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Defensive tackles Tyrique Tucker and Mario Landino return as anchors inside, while the Hoosiers also added Kansas State edge transfer Tobi Osunsanmi from the transfer portal.
    — Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of anchors
Noun
  • Telemetry becomes more than a record of events and turns into a map of dependencies, conditions and consequences.
    — Kannan Kothandaraman, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of dependencies
Noun
  • Look under rocks for macroinvertebrates (animals without backbones, like stoneflies).
    — Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 18 June 2026
  • Data centers also need to be close enough to users and network backbones to provide fast digital services.
    — Sven Bilén, The Conversation, 16 June 2026
Definition of backbones
Noun
  • So, here was Ondaatje just writing about his day-t0-day, grappling with the intense swings of emotion any parent must reckon with as their children grow into autonomy, forever leaving behind the heartbreakingly sweet (and frequently tedious) dependences of childhood.
    — Jonny Diamond, Literary Hub, 9 Apr. 2026
Definition of dependences
Noun
  • Dior’s men’s fragrance business revolves around two modern pillars—Sauvage and Homme—and the prolific Kurkdjian thinks about the two pillars as neighboring territories.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2026
  • ScreenshotA complaint that appears to have been filed on July 8, 2021, through the county's SeeClickFix, or 311, online reporting system described cracking and chipping concrete pillars in the building's underground parking garage.
    — Drew Aunkst, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Definition of pillars
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