Synonyms for depend
dɪˈpɛndde·pend

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1. dependverb

   be contingent upon (something that is elided)

   "That depends"

   Synonyms:
   count, bet, look, reckon, calculate

2. count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckonverb

   have faith or confidence in

   "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis"

   Synonyms:
   figure, seem, bet, suppose, look, reckon, work out, appear, weigh, view, front, estimate, numerate, expect, see, compute, search, think, calculate, cypher, play, opine, aim, imagine, await, wager, enumerate, count, cipher, direct, number, guess, face, attend, regard, wait, consider, forecast, take care, matter, account, count on

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1. dependverb

   Synonyms:
   hang, be pendent

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1. dependverb

   Synonyms:
   lean, rely, trust

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1. List of paraphrases for "depend":

   rely, count, adopt

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1. Greg Stringham:

   The momentum that we see in the oil sands ... the growth that we see in the first four or five years of the forecast, really is pretty well set, in the longer term the oil sands does depend more on world oil prices.

2. Michael Cohen:

   Landlords have adjusted their expectations and are already being much more aggressive than they were before COVID, but their specific reactions depend on their individual circumstances. For example, developers of newer office buildings are more likely wait to make deals if they don't want to lower their rents further.

3. Sebastian Pineda:

   Whether a planet survives with an atmosphere or not can depend on whether the planet has a strong magnetic field or not.

4. Seneca:

   The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

5. Steve Wojciechowski:

   It’s surreal, how many things in your life have been consistent over a 40-year period, where you know you go somewhere and turn on the TV, there’s a constant there that you can depend on? In all of our lives? Very few. Duke, and Coach K being there, is one of them.