reliable

adjective

ri-ˈlī-ə-bəl How to pronounce reliable (audio)
Definition of reliablenext
as in responsible
worthy of one's trust I need a reliable car that's not going to break down constantly

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Recent Examples of reliable So if your dusty old printer is starting to kick the can, consider the reliable HP Smart Tank 5101. — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026 Fuel can account for as much as half of a mine’s operating costs, leaving operators searching for cheaper and more reliable alternatives. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 July 2026 Andrews, a lifelong resident of Red Hook Houses West, said the community has waited long enough for a reliable pool. — Hannah Kliger, CBS News, 2 July 2026 Telomeres, which sit at the ends of chromosomes to protect genetic material, shorten with age and are a reliable marker of biological aging. — New Atlas, 2 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for reliable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reliable
  1. responsible
  2. safe
  3. true
  4. good
  5. steady
  6. dependable
  7. solid
  8. trustworthy
Adjective
  • Othram worked with Fort Worth police to identify McCurley as the man responsible.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
  • The Federal Aviation Administration regulates the airspace, and drone owners are responsible for knowing and abiding by those restrictions.
    — Kelly O'Donnell, NBC news, 5 July 2026
Definition of responsible
Adjective
  • Air conditioning will be keeping millions of Americans safe and comfortable over the holiday weekend as a heat dome brings dangerous conditions to millions.
    — Ignacio Calderon, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • Los Robles officials said that staff, patients and visitors were safe and that medical care was not interrupted at the hospital.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
Definition of safe
Adjective
  • This underscores how Apple's control over its devices, from hardware to software, limits true ownership and poses challenges for long-term digital preservation.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
  • If religion is corrupted by breaking down the wall of separation, much the same is true of the state.
    — Kenneth Seeskin, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Definition of true
Adjective
  • The next best thing to intravenous intervention when dehydrated is Liquid IV.
    — Abbey Hudetz, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
  • Our best guess is that there might be a little bit of recognition for the youngest generations, too, watching all those clips — as in, Holy cow, Austin Powers was real!
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 7 July 2026
Definition of good
Adjective
  • This doesn't look like the time for steady rate cuts, and current Warsh recently emphasized the bank's 2% inflation target, which hasn't been reached since 2021.
    — Dan Mangan,Luke Fountain,Kevin Breuninger,Garrett Downs,Ashley Capoot,Justin Papp, CNBC, 2 July 2026
  • In other words, women tend to burn more fat for energy than men during steady, moderate-intensity endurance exercise, such as a marathon.
    — Claire Maldarelli, Scientific American, 2 July 2026
Definition of steady
Adjective
  • Like its patrons’ routines, The Silver Skillet is dependable.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
  • The dependable measure of how much invasive disease has grown is the 60 percent that blood shows, not the headline doubling.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of dependable
Adjective
  • Goldin, who appeared in 11 Heat games as a rookie, was very solid on Friday, blocking a shot by Maliq Brown and then blocking a shot on an alley oop.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 4 July 2026
  • Additionally, Thursday morning’s mission was the last to use the Atlas V’s most powerful configuration with five strap-on solid rocket boosters.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026
Definition of solid
Adjective
  • When a user, expecting to install a trustworthy clipboard manager, encounters the disk image, they’re prompted to press Command-R immediately after double-clicking it.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
  • The New Playbook For Effective, Trustworthy AI ​ GenAI decisions that are hallucination-free and fully auditable are the key to AI that is trustworthy and can pass regulatory scrutiny.
    — Scott Zoldi, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of trustworthy

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