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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
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“Rely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rely. Accessed 18 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of rely was in 1574
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