Synonyms for rely upon
re·ly up·on

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1. rely uponverb

   Synonyms:
   believe, confide in, depend on, depend upon, rely on, trust

   Antonyms:
   distrust, doubt, doubt, mistrust, surmise, suspect

Princeton's WordNet

1. depend on, depend upon, rely on, rely uponverb

   put trust in with confidence

   "she is someone you can really rely on when times get rough"; "you can rely on his discretion"

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1. rely upon

   Synonyms:
   RELY ON

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1. Emily Erbelding:

   Because we are in a race here to beat back this epidemic and a vaccine is very important, people might be willing to take a chance on just going quickly into phase two, so the 18 months would rely upon speeding things up.

2. Steve Vladeck:

   The anti-abortion group had tried to rely upon California's' anti-SLAPP' statute to argue that Planned Parenthood was trying to chill Planned Parenthood officials First Amendment rights rather than sue Planned Parenthood officials on legitimate grounds.

3. Fiona Wheatley:

   Your ability to give your customers more confidence that they can rely upon is proving to be increasingly challenging.

4. Steve Vladeck:

   It's usually difficult, if not impossible, to show that your lawyer was ineffective without introducing new evidence, since that ineffectiveness often turns on evidence that wasn't introduced, but today's decision makes it impossible for prisoners to rely upon new evidence to prove that the lawyer representing them in state post-conviction proceedings was ineffective.

5. Joy Reid:

   This is now a facility under the control of the Department of Justice, and this Department of Justice does not exactly inspire justice, lets just be blunt. ... William Barrs Department of Justice is not one that you can readily simply rely upon and feel confident in.