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reliance
noun as in confidence
Strongest match
Example Sentences
Mayor Karen Bass and other city officials have called it a key piece of their efforts to invest in local water supplies and reduce reliance on imported supplies that are growing less reliable with climate change.
The Conservative MP claimed the approach would "see our reliance on Chinese imports - a country which is 60% powered by coal - go through the roof".
Trump’s reliance on gaslighting was flagged repeatedly in his 2016 campaign.
Jameel Jaffer, the founding director of the Knight First Amendment Institute, for instance, disputed Cole’s claims, citing the Obama administration’s continued reliance on illegal and extralegal policies that Bush’s aggressive actions had already put in play — among them warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention and the military commissions to try prisoners at Guantánamo.
As Koh puts it: “In foreign affairs, even the longtime senator Joe Biden — who widely proclaims his love of the Senate — now operates almost entirely by executive fiat,” including a reliance on “classified policy memoranda, with minimal congressional oversight.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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