as in to depend
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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Recent Examples of rely
Others rely on advisers to go through everything.
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Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 6 Apr. 2026
Employers often rely on productivity metrics, rigid assessments or personality tests to measure performance and fit.
—Elan Gepner-Dales, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2026
In the United States, NASA has explored the SPS-ALPHA (Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large Phased Array) concept, which also relies on large networks of modular units to gather solar energy and beam it to Earth.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Apr. 2026
Because of that law, counties can’t rely on the state’s current voting system after the July deadline.
—Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 6 Apr. 2026
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Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 6 Apr. 2026
Employers often rely on productivity metrics, rigid assessments or personality tests to measure performance and fit.
—Elan Gepner-Dales, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2026
In the United States, NASA has explored the SPS-ALPHA (Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large Phased Array) concept, which also relies on large networks of modular units to gather solar energy and beam it to Earth.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 Apr. 2026
Because of that law, counties can’t rely on the state’s current voting system after the July deadline.
—Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 6 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for rely
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rely
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Smooth push and pull design so it can be steered like a stroller or pulled like a wagon depending on the situation.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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In it, Dekeyser assembles a history and taxonomy of the refusal of technologies, even ones that humans had come to depend on in their daily lives.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2026
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That bonus would count for $5 million against the cap in each of 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2029.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2026
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Sutskever had once counted both men as friends.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Rely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rely. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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