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“The systems in each voting location are not connected to the Internet or to each other, and many methods for exploiting them rely on physical proximity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
It is unacceptable that a public institution already so clouded in secrecy either chooses to or must rely on a private consulting firm.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
Most of those are in Northern Ireland, where the watchdog says 60% of households rely on it.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
In contrast Li, who has no big online following, can "only rely on calling out to people on the street to get customers".
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
In this case, Clare had to rely on precedent.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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The Pentagon relies on SpaceX for launching rockets and managing satellites for communications and missile tracking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Yet its authority is not self-executing: It relies on lower courts to implement its decisions, extend their logic, and normalize the resulting excesses.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
The region primarily relies on water from the overtapped and shrinking Colorado River.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
AST SpaceMobile is developing a space-based cellular broadband network that relies on putting new satellites in orbit.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
All movement, you might remember, relies on that kind of tension.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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The partnership at its height included billions in US financing flowing to the South Asian nation, which Washington relied on for military supply routes and counterterrorism cooperation.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
But perhaps most saliently, the whole incident brought to light just how much the Supreme Court had relied on this particular security firm in the past.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
Fish and Wildlife Service had not relied on the best scientific and commercial data available in adding the lizard to the list.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
The FDIC’s 2023 survey found that 5.6 million households were unbanked, meaning they had no bank account, and an estimated 19 million had accounts but relied on nonbank credit to meet their needs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Collins’s approach wasn’t “You must remember this variation of the King’s Indian Defense, which is much stronger than what you played”—rather, he relied on a kind of osmosis.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Co-author Dr. Charlotte Mills, University of Reading, explained that the findings point to new ways of improving how the body processes nitrate without relying on long-term sugar consumption.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
In several districts across the country, organizations reported they were relying less on the federal government amid changes to rules and funding levels.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
In every round, it did just enough, relying on suffocating defense and its trademark depth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
But Pete Etchells, professor of science communication at Bath Spa University, cautioned against relying too much on them.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
I sat stiff and erect, supported by the hard bench, relying upon it as upon a form of hope.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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