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RELIANCES
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The answer RELIANCES is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
RELIANCE as a noun:
1. (reliance, trust) = certainty based on past experience; "he wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists"; "he put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun"
2. the state of relying on something