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Six example sentences with reliable, each labelled with its topic.
The old server is slower but completely reliable; it has not dropped a single job in four years of nightly runs.
Technology
That battery grip is reliable in the cold, which matters when you are shooting owls at dawn in February.
Photography
The bus to the airport is reliable to the minute, so locals leave home exactly forty minutes before every flight.
Travel
The backup guard is not flashy but reliable, and the coach trusts him with the ball in the final minute.
Basketball
A reliable thermometer reads the same in the morning as at night, which is why the lab checks it weekly.
Science
Investors paid extra for the reliable dividend, which the company had raised every single year since 1975.
Finance
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