as in depended
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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The CMOs of legacy financial services brands have long relied on a market dominated by older customers.
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Stephen Diorio, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Rasmussen’s family challenged that finding, saying Lazarus didn't appear remorseful and questioning why the board relied on the state’s youthful offender law in her case.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
When other manufacturers relied on traditional PCIe, NVIDIA had already been innovating for over a decade.
—Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2024
Bolstering customer connections with emotional AI Advertisers have always relied on sentiment analysis to tailor their messaging.
—Gary Drenik, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Farmers have relied on nature to grow flowers.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
One person familiar with the development of the first model described it as a patchwork product that relied on Microsoft’s Bing for search and Meta’s open-source Llama model for query rewriting.
—Kylie Robison, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2024
Nola by far carried the heaviest workload (199 1/3 IP) among the group, while Peralta relied on bat-missing and Fried on ground ball generation for their respective success.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
In both instances, the prosecution relied on the testimony of Glossip's co-defendant, Justin Sneed, who admitted to robbing and killing Van Treese but said Glossip hired him to carry out the murder.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
Stephen Diorio, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Rasmussen’s family challenged that finding, saying Lazarus didn't appear remorseful and questioning why the board relied on the state’s youthful offender law in her case.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
When other manufacturers relied on traditional PCIe, NVIDIA had already been innovating for over a decade.
—Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2024
Bolstering customer connections with emotional AI Advertisers have always relied on sentiment analysis to tailor their messaging.
—Gary Drenik, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Farmers have relied on nature to grow flowers.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
One person familiar with the development of the first model described it as a patchwork product that relied on Microsoft’s Bing for search and Meta’s open-source Llama model for query rewriting.
—Kylie Robison, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2024
Nola by far carried the heaviest workload (199 1/3 IP) among the group, while Peralta relied on bat-missing and Fried on ground ball generation for their respective success.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
In both instances, the prosecution relied on the testimony of Glossip's co-defendant, Justin Sneed, who admitted to robbing and killing Van Treese but said Glossip hired him to carry out the murder.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Relied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relied. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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