RELIANCES Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

reliances

noun

plural of reliance

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

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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Noun

Schools are community anchors and they should be used to benefit the community.

— Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2026
Battle with swords, pistols, anchors, or guitars, tow your haul between islands, and craft tools on the fly.

— Jennifer Maas, Variety, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of anchors

Noun

According to industry analysts, overall sourcing throughput has hit record levels while diversifying rapidly away from single-source dependencies.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 2 Nov. 2026
Such an arrangement would make targeting data and communications important dependencies.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of dependencies

Noun

Sorkin has written, among other things, a show about Democrats with actual backbones.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
Also with a real understanding that girls and women are the backbones not just of our families, but our communities and our democracy.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of backbones

Noun

The three pillars of Dan Hicks’ career as an NBC Sports broadcaster were golf, the Olympics and Notre Dame football, in no particular order.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2026
The researchers use electron-beam lithography to carve the diamond into nanoscale pillars.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of pillars

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