reliant

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Recent Examples of reliant Local stations, which are much more reliant on federal grants than their national counterparts, have borne the brunt of the lost funding, resulting in layoffs and programming cuts. James Powel, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025 The New Audience Journey With a rise in zero-click and conversational chatbots, customer and audience journeys are becoming shorter and less reliant on brand websites and ad interactions. Partner Content, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025 But amid a career reliant on comic timing, a dark tragedy took hold when Plato died at age 34. Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025 In 2021, a paper from University of California, Irvine assistant professor Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi detailed the devastating effects a powerful coronal mass ejection – or a ‘solar tsunami’ – could have on our internet-reliant world. Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reliant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reliant
dependent
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, molecular biologist and science journalist Kai Kupferschmidt suggested in Science Magazine that influenza epidemics may become less severe as the planet warms, but outbreaks may become more common, rather than season-dependent.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Insertion of a synthetic switch into insulin provides metabolite-dependent regulation of hormone–receptor activation.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025

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