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reliance

noun as in confidence

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Foreign investors and central banks are attempting to wean themselves off their reliance on U.S.

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There’s so much reliance on conventional asset allocation ideas, like the 60/40 portfolio, that don’t have anything to do with the changing long-term expected return of stocks and bonds.

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“We were hit a bit harder than some” in the bank crisis in part because of heavier reliance on commercial deposits, Comerica Chief Executive Curt Farmer said on a Monday call with analysts.

Exports to countries other than the U.S. also weakened for a third straight month, even as Ottawa has pushed to pivot the country away from a reliance on the massive U.S. market.

The new rules signal China is tightening its stranglehold on key industrial bases and technologies as the U.S. and other Western countries aim to build up domestic manufacturing and reduce reliance on China.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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