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as in to rely
to place reliance or trust
I know I can always depend on you for help when I really need it
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Recent Examples of depend
The facility has 10 distinct jails, with a daily population that fluctuates depending on the city's crime rates and judicial processes.
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Plausible deniability at its worst or best, depending on your perspective.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
The future for the businesses depends in part on how quickly the city can get permits to add the left-turn lanes on Fairbanks, which is a state road and requires approval from the Florida Department of Transportation.
—Silas Morgan, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2024
For example, this Patagonia Women’s Re-tool Hybrid Pullover is 50 percent off and can be layered up or down depending on your needs.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
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Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Plausible deniability at its worst or best, depending on your perspective.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
The future for the businesses depends in part on how quickly the city can get permits to add the left-turn lanes on Fairbanks, which is a state road and requires approval from the Florida Department of Transportation.
—Silas Morgan, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Dec. 2024
For example, this Patagonia Women’s Re-tool Hybrid Pullover is 50 percent off and can be layered up or down depending on your needs.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 2 Dec. 2024
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One work-in-progress is a musical based on the movie Norma Rae.Nancy Kruh, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024
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This article is based on interviews with more than a dozen people with insight into the transition, including people who have participated in the process.Theodore Schleifer, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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To form their answers, these LLMs rely on pretraining that metaphorically entails putting trillions of word fragments from existing texts, such as books and websites, into a large blender and coarsely mixing them.Jonathan L. Zittrain, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
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The damage will be felt for years to come both within China and in countries that relied on strong Chinese demand to export their cars, commodities, and services.Daniel H. Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 17 Dec. 2024
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But the celebration turned gruesome this autumn when one of the male contestants killed a female contestant.Ayana Archie, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
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Figure out how to turn it into a monthly package that clients are keen to commit to.Jodie Cook, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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But that doesn’t count the inestimable number of individuals who have obtained GLP-1s without prescriptions through unregulated online channels and illicit online compounding pharmacies, many operating overseas.Bob Woods, CNBC, 8 Dec. 2024
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That counts as a good outcome for an academic couple.Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
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Do a standing hip hinge as follows: Stand straight with your feet shoulder-width apart. Shift your weight back onto your heels and hinge forward at your hips—do not bend over at your waist.Aubrey Bailey, PT, DPT, CHT, Verywell Health, 20 Nov. 2024
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The bounds of the potential destruction will hinge only on the will, and the restraint, of both human and machine.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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Escape a sun that’s going supernova, challenge a monkey to a dance battle, try out some cool hoverboard tricks, fight an evil kitty and ride everything from gravity bikes to a sandshark.Jennifer Maas, Variety, 13 Dec. 2024
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These household purveyors of horsepower, ride height, and above all—pun intended—entertainment, are icons of aftermarket modification.Peter Nelson, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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