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as in anchors
something or someone to which one looks for support
he's been the family's foremost reliance in times of trouble many times
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as in dependencies
the quality or state of needing something or someone
a baby's reliance on her parents his reliance on his next-door neighbor for all the local gossip
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Ball and Bridges were also two of the best four players the Hornets had last season (along with Brandon Miller and Kon Knueppel who are staying and will be among the anchors of the 2026-27 team).
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On the other hand, a large yard filled solely with small plants can look indistinct unless a few larger plants are added as anchors.
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The challenge becomes exponentially harder in large, interconnected enterprises where recovery depends on systems, services, sites and other dependencies that are constantly changing.
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These dependencies present supply chain challenges as some of the import sources are located in adversarial or geopolitically unstable nations.
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Look under rocks for macroinvertebrates (animals without backbones, like stoneflies).
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Data centers also need to be close enough to users and network backbones to provide fast digital services.
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So, here was Ondaatje just writing about his day-t0-day, grappling with the intense swings of emotion any parent must reckon with as their children grow into autonomy, forever leaving behind the heartbreakingly sweet (and frequently tedious) dependences of childhood.
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Still, the pieces of ceiling trim dedicated to the pillars of courage and trust remained missing, a nod perhaps to the traits most easily lost when disaster strikes – and most needed to rebuild.
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The only way to preserve our republic is to strengthen the pillars of our present with the mortar of our past.
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“Reliances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reliances. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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