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noun

reliability

the quality of being dependable or reliable

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Six example sentences with reliability, each labelled with its topic.

  • The team chose the older database for its reliability, accepting slower queries in exchange for years without an outage.

    Technology

  • The line's reliability is why commuters use it, since the eight minute train has missed its slot twice in a decade.

    Travel

  • A questionnaire earns its reliability when the same person answers roughly the same way six months later.

    Psychology

  • Retirees hold that bond for the reliability of its coupon, which has arrived on the same date every year since 1998.

    Finance

  • The coach valued his reliability at the free throw line above his scoring, since the last minute of a close game belonged to him.

    Basketball

  • Enterprise buyers ask about reliability before price, so the startup published its uptime for every month since launch.

    Startups

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