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Synonyms for rely
rɪˈlaɪre·ly

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Princeton's WordNet3.7 / 3 votes

  1. trust, swear, rely, bankverb

    have confidence or faith in

    "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes"

    Synonyms:
    depose, affirm, blaspheme, trust, imprecate, depone, swan, aver, confide, avow, entrust, hope, cuss, desire, swear, curse, assert, intrust, commit, deposit, bank, verify, believe

PPDB, the paraphrase database5.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "rely":

    count, depend, invoke, entrust, trust, proud, build, resort

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#136159blaspheme
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How to use rely in a sentence?

  1. Avi Schiffmann:

    This puts power back into the hands of refugees by allowing them to take the initiative, go straight to the website, enter their city and immediately find listings, they don't need to rely on anyone else to help them find a safe place. There's millions of refugees, and it's going to be millions more, so balancing efficiency and security as well as safety is critical.

  2. President Biden:

    No one is building new coal plants because President Biden and Democrats ca n’t rely on it. Even if they have all the coal guaranteed for the rest of the existence of the plant, so it's going to become a wind generation.

  3. Katharine Hayhoe:

    We can no longer rely on the past as a reliable predictor for future conditions, as we've been doing for hundreds and even thousands of years, instead, we must prepare for conditions that are hotter and droughts that are more damaging than we've seen before.

  4. Marco Rubio:

    Clearly President Xi personally intervened for #ZTE but replacing sanctions with fine of $300/$400 million is not a good deal, we have leverage to bring fairness back to relationship with #China whose other tech firms Tsinghua,Huawei,BBK,Yiomi & Lenovo rely on U.S. chips as well.

  5. James Seaman:

    You can't rely on getting things through Priority Mail right now in a timely manner.


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