- present participle of rely.
relying
Example Sentences
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And she had been relying on $830 a month in benefits from her ex-husband, who died of a heart attack in 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
And that I found very, very inspiring, very encouraging — that television and film should be pushing itself continually for that original material and not relying on remakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Instead of relying mainly on separate individual burials, people increasingly arranged bodies vertically.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
They are relying more heavily on their networks, learning how to use AI and sharpening their communication skills and personal qualities — such as coachability, curiosity and reliability — to find work and stay employed.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
For the Arabs, and for astronomers relying on Arabic sources, Arim represented the degree zero of longitude and latitude.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
