reliant
Example Sentences
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Campaigners, including patients who contracted HIV through unsafe transfusions, called the bill a long-awaited step towards safer, quality-assured blood for those reliant on frequent transfusions.
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Young adults tend to be more reliant on friends for emotional connection - and if those friends don't deliver, loneliness can follow.
From BBC
He pointed out that police officers would have initially been reliant on calls to emergency operators "and everyone would have given them a different story".
From BBC
The U.S.—long reliant on expensive fighting kit and extended processes—is trying to catch up, shifting to a starkly new era marked by nimble, relatively cheap and expendable equipment.
The life-limiting condition will eventually leave him reliant on a wheelchair and in need of specialist home adaptations, so the family are raising money pound by pound, bake sale by bake sale.
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