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The group is developing a framework to evaluate credit-rating providers, which insurers rely on to determine regulatory capital requirements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“Do not simply rely on your cellphone or Garmin, and stop to verify that you are on the correct route often.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Moreover, if energy demands place too much pressure on the grid or there is a power outage, data centres, like in Lane Cove, will rely on backup diesel generators.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
That could derail retirement plans, especially for those who have used their full estimated benefits to determine how much money they can rely on every month in retirement alongside any withdrawals from their retirement savings.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
“There is already chaos! It is just that it’s currently a chaos that humans are able to ignore. The creatures—creatures who rely on the glimourie—they are not afforded that luxury!”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Violence in those waters has also led to disruptions for the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which Kazakhstan relies on to export its oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
The effect relies on the same basic behavior that can cause the bottom edge of a cut T-shirt to curl upward.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
AI infrastructure may be particularly sensitive because it relies on high-volume, high-speed data transfers.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Generative AI relies on underlying patterns from existing data to predict and produce new outputs, rather than just copying or sorting existing information.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The prince who relies entirely upon their words comes to ruin, finding himself stripped naked of other preparations.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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“Are those little streams that we’ve relied on all these years going to change so that there’s no water for the cows?” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Douglass relied instead on an interpretive rule: Where constitutional language permits more than one plausible meaning, choose the one favoring liberty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Sir Sadiq Khan claimed the strategic case relied on outdated evidence that "fails to reflect current climate laws and travel habits".
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Michael Gerrard, a climate law professor at Columbia University, told AFP the ruling heavily relied on the "preemption question."
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
To make matters worse, dramatic technological changes revolutionized the workplace—changes that eliminated many of the jobs that less skilled workers once relied upon for their survival.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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The most remote communities are relying on army helicopter flights for supplies, and villages are still struggling for fuel and electricity.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
They say Robinhood is creating more ways to grow revenue, rather than just relying on stronger retail trading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
A tool to collect data independently, rather than relying solely on companies' own declarations, is under development, Lefevre's office said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
But analysts have expressed doubts about relying on heavy Venezuelan crude for the SPR, which is set up largely to store what’s known as light, sweet crude.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Perhaps Lola was relying on the twins to wreck the play innocently, and needed only to stand back and observe.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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