reliable source

collocation in English

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reliable
adjective
uk /rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/ us /rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/
Someone or something that is reliable can be trusted or believed because he, she, or it works or behaves well in the way ...
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source
noun[C]
uk /sɔːs/ us /sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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Examples of reliable source

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That is so because you believe your professor is a more reliablesource of information-about the information concerned in this dialogue, at least-than your friend.
Graduate students and research geologists, in particular, will find it a clear and reliablesource of good practice and good sense on quantitative structural geology.
An archaeologist himself, he claims his discipline to be a more reliablesource for cultural history than often-contaminated oral traditions.
For many of these citizens wells probably provided a better and more reliablesource of water than the waterleaders.
This system has been proved to be a reliablesource for actual resource utilization of patients.
Of course the censuses taken in the colonies at that time cannot be considered a very reliablesource.
School nurses were seen as a reliablesource of help by some callers.
While this arrangement could provide cyanobacteria with a more reliablesource of fixed nitrogen, it would not be cheap.
In qualitative research, all opinions of participants are valid, and first-hand experience is a reliablesource of knowledge.
This practice not only made possible the formation and perpetuation of local oligarchies but also provided a reliablesource of political support to the president.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers would have a more reliablesource of funding and realize increased incentives to pursue breakthrough innovations.
The first is that there must be a reliablesource for the work itself, a source, he adds in loud italics, 'whose nature and origins the critic understands'.
Open canals and drains from the sugar irrigation scheme run through or beside most districts and provide the only reliablesource of domestic water for many people.
The orderedness of time permits chronological reasoning in proofs, and time itself acts as a reliablesource of 'freshness'.
Musical concepts and principles in themselves are generally logically presented and clearly explained and as such, could form a reliablesource of guidance for instrumental teachers.
A chemical cycle would have a better chance of reproducing itself if it were coupled with an energy cycle, which would ensure a reliablesource of energy.
This is particularly remarkable given that probate records constitute the most complete and reliablesource for an analysis of the size and composition of individual wealth.
After all, citizens will then know from their own experience what the notes, obtained from a reliablesource, look like.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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