reliably

reliable | American Dictionary

reliable
adjective
us/rɪˈlɑɪ·ə·bəl/
deserving trust; dependable:
My car is old but it’s reliable.

reliability

noun[ U ]us/rɪˌlɑɪ·əˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
The reliability of this smoke detector is guaranteed.

reliably

adverbus/rɪˈlɑɪ·ə·bli/
His whereabouts were unknown, but he was reliably reported to be alive.

reliable | Business English

reliable
adjective
uk /rɪˈlaɪəbl/us
reliable information or data is accurate or able to be trusted:
Broker-dealers must use their judgment in assessing whether the issuer information is from a reliable source.
reliable information/data/evidenceCurrently, investors do not always have access to reliable information when they need it.
reliable figures/estimates/indicatorsThe Consumer Price Index is a reasonably reliable indicator of inflation.
more/less reliableResearch results are more reliable when they are independent of the person who has conducted the study.
a machine, piece of equipment, or system that is reliable always works well without breaking down:
Consumer demand for fuel-efficient, reliable vehicles is on the increase.
People are often willing to pay a premium for a familiar, reliable service.
While these disks function well as backup storage, they aren't reliable enough for long-term archiving.
more/less/the least, etc. reliableThe hard disk on which data is stored is probably the least reliable component in a PC.
a reliable person is someone that you can trust to work hard and do what they say they will do:
Employers want reliable workers.
She's usually very reliable.

reliably

adverb/rɪˈlaɪəbli/
At this stage, long-term costs cannot be reliably estimated.

Examples of reliable

reliable
It is equally true, however, that the party's narrow class base rendered it an increasingly less than reliable champion of democratic rights.
This provides smooth and reliable global motion paths which avoid local obstacles from the current position to the goal destination.
In designing tasks, researchers need to worry about establishing reliable and valid measures.
Yet, over one-quarter of the women who visited family planning clinics selected the rhythm or other less reliable methods.
A much simpler and more reliable solution than the unfortunate 'bleating lamb' effect that comes from attempting single-note trills on the vowels!
It centred around which material was more reliable: a mercury column or a wire of solid alloy.
Trustworthiness of the engineers was also paramount in attempts to establish railway locomotives as a safe, reliable, and cheap form of transportation.
The four subtypes we identified were reliable and presented coherent patterns of oral language skill development.
There were no reliable differences in this regard between the onset plus duration and onset only conditions.
The implication was that large cell assemblies are required to deliver reliable sensory signals.
These basic facts emerge both in the figures for the 1920s and 1930s and in the somewhat more reliable data for 1952.
The total consumption was then compared with import figures from the trade statistics to see whether the data was reliable.
But it was unscholarly, in the sense that doubtful and questionable matter was accepted in an uncritical spirit and interspersed among documents of reliable authenticity.
In the absence of reliable telephones, every step in the interview process requires physical contact with the respondent, to book, reschedule, and keep appointments.
The proof uses reliable computations based on interval arithmetic.
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