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reliant
adjective as in dependent
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Satirists are reliant ultimately on the very establishment they mock.
That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.
As a result, American and British prisoners are almost solely reliant on dangerous military efforts to free them.
And she credits her mother for helping to establish who that woman was early on: independent, free, self-reliant.
Non-U.S. companies, much more reliant on exports, cannot afford to do that.
As guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.
The trait is not rare in mankind in general, but it is exceptional in men of a character so self-reliant and decided as Nelson.
But you must be self-reliant, and put them on the list of experiments.
It's a good House—good boys—manly, self-reliant, purposeful.
Once on this I became over-reliant, and in consequence sank several times into narrow fissures.
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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to reliant, such as: relying, subservient, susceptible, accessory to, ancillary, and appurtenant.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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