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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But while water mills rely on the movement of the tide, PacWave will be focusing on surface waves in the open ocean, Hales said.
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 4 Dec. 2024
Benefits And Challenges Of Running A Bitcoin Node Node operators gain direct access to Bitcoin's peer-to-peer network without relying on third parties.
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The new-generation of AI weather models that are rolling out from tech companies are trained on past weather data and rely on machine learning techniques.
—Andrew Freedman, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
To buy a company, a PE firm typically relies on debt financing, aka borrowing the money from a bank.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 4 Dec. 2024
Benefits And Challenges Of Running A Bitcoin Node Node operators gain direct access to Bitcoin's peer-to-peer network without relying on third parties.
—Andrey Sergeenkov, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
The new-generation of AI weather models that are rolling out from tech companies are trained on past weather data and rely on machine learning techniques.
—Andrew Freedman, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
To buy a company, a PE firm typically relies on debt financing, aka borrowing the money from a bank.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Rely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rely. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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