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If the company could not rely on a benefactor like Inouye, it would develop a stable of them.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

During the pandemic, millions of people were working from home and did not need to rely on pet-sitting services.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

“If we can rely on word of mouth, that’s great.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Film producing has become a difficult career over the past 20 years, as studios rely more on franchises they own and less on projects outsiders bring them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Or for anybody who’s sick to rely on medical opinions from people—er, androids—who don’t know what they’re talking about.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Cuba relies heavily on fuel imports, meaning tight US sanctions and an oil blockade since the start of the year have exacerbated existing shortages.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

The system relies on a phenomenon known as the optical Kerr effect.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Traditional fabrication relies on ultraprecision machinery to squeeze more circuits onto a single chip; Huawei is trying to improve computing efficiency through techniques such as layering circuits within a single chip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Training robots requires input from human dancers and relies heavily on engineers to troubleshoot problems, particularly in real-time during performances.

From Barron's

Instead, Voyager relies on a small nuclear power plant, drawing hundreds of watts from the radioactive decay of a pellet of plutonium.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The U.S. imposed a 40-year ban on crude exports in 1975 following the Arab oil embargo, when the country relied heavily on foreign crude for its refineries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“We relied on the page, because it combined marketing, ticketing, and communications with clients and performers. To have that taken away with just a moment’s notice … I can’t even describe it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Tourtsakis explained it to me like this: The process relied on the crystals in the room, which were quantum entangled with particles out in space.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

News relied on was several years old and that the amount of federal debt undergraduate students carry doesn’t vary much because the government limits the amount they can borrow, Kelchen said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Gossip columns had not found their way to the Internet, so we relied solely on monthly magazines for the latest on whom our favorite celebrities were dating.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

He pointed out that after years of extreme weather, many farmers were relying on the funding to help adapt their farms to climate change and become more resilient.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

With the pipeline impaired, Saudi Arabia is increasingly relying on its Persian Gulf export terminals to keep crude moving through Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The findings suggest that conservation funding should be tailored to the conditions of individual landscapes rather than relying on a single approach everywhere.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

It preserves the merger rather than blocking consolidation, while relying on monitoring, production requirements and penalties to limit its consequences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Instead of relying solely on old-fashioned cop know-how, he introduced technological solutions like CompStat, a computerized method of addressing crime hot spots.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt