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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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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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Boaters must open hatches, inspect anchors and use high-temperature water to destroy any aquatic invasive species, officials said.
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This engagement heavily anchors to smartphones, with mobile devices driving 70 percent of try-on interactions and accounting for more than four out of five revenue dollars.
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Owning a feature end-to-end eliminates engineering bottlenecks and dependencies on central infra teams.
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Far from diversifying away from China, Europe is deepening its dependencies.
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Look under rocks for macroinvertebrates (animals without backbones, like stoneflies).
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Data centers also need to be close enough to users and network backbones to provide fast digital services.
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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.
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Brick pillars are embedded with bronze plaques listing the players and manager from each of the franchise’s three World Series championship teams.
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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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“Reliances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reliances. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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