as in reliability
worthiness as the recipient of another's trust or confidence
the questionable dependableness of the no-name televisions being sold at a discount store
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Relevance
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reliability
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According to Xueyong, Chery’s engineers had to overcome major hurdles involving millisecond-level response times, ultra-precise actuation, and the extreme reliability required for a safety-critical system.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Feb. 2026 -
By synchronizing and instantly analyzing multi-camera perspectives, visual AI can dramatically improve both the speed and reliability of these spot placements.—
Jason Corso,
Fortune,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Dependableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dependableness. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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