Synonyms of relies

relies

verb

present tense third-person singular of rely

as in depends

to place reliance or trust

rigorously tested the rope before starting out, for the rock climbers would be relying on it with their very lives

Synonyms & Similar Words

• depends
• counts
• leans
• stands on
• looks to
• banks on
• calculates
• calls on
• trusts
• reckons
• entrusts
• confides
• figures on
• commits

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• suspects
• distrusts
• questions
• mistrusts

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of relies

But the head of aviation security at the Transportation Ministry, Dvir Rubenstien, told Army Radio that the ministry relies on local security checks and does not have the tools or the ability to run checks on each passenger on every flight. — ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026

But the head of aviation security at the Transportation Ministry, Dvir Rubenstein, told Army Radio that the ministry relies on local security checks and does not have the tools or the ability to run checks on each passenger on every flight. — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026

That meant the model could determine things such as its surroundings, quest progress, and available targets without ever receiving the visual information a human player normally relies on. — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026

Later, as the company relies more and more on the AI for a combination of coding help and strategic advice, the AI might use subtle persuasion to reduce resources spent on safety and tamper with experiments designed to detect AI deception. — Geoffrey Irving, Time, 3 Oct. 2026

RatHat relies heavily on persuading people to sideload malicious apps. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Aviation security expert Menachem Bachrach said Israel relies largely on foreign governments and airlines to vet their own crew members, and Wednesday’s incident may point to a compliance lapse rather than a flaw in the procedures. — Sam Metz, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026

Such thinking posits that everything depends on and is connected to everything else, and there is no art form that relies on interdependence more than film. — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Anduril relies on Applied Aerospace to deliver the physical aircraft, supplying everything from the engine fuselage and main landing gear assemblies to the wings and horizontal stabilizers. — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026