DEPENDED Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

depended

verb

past tense of depend

as in based

to be determined by, based on, or subject (to) whether or not we play baseball will depend on how much rain we get

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as in relied

to place reliance or trust I know I can always depend on you for help when I really need it

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Recent Examples of depended Mathematicians weren’t able to make much progress; their best upper limit on the discrepancy, achieved in 1998, still depended strongly on the dimension of the problem. — Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2026 Trades have long been negotiated through emails, phone calls and chatrooms, while liquidity discovery has depended on fragmented dealer outreach and manual reconciliation. — Brian Bejile, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026 After experimenting with several positions, Valenzuela eventually found a perfect place at left tackle for the Bulldogs and developed a shrewd sense of how much depended on that. — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026 Solving problems now depended on a system of testing and learning in which solutions were continually tried out in the real world and adapted accordingly. — Jennifer Pahlka, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 Yet the industry has long depended on a relatively small group of major suppliers. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026 Public health has always depended on some surrender of individual privacy for collective benefit. — Jennifer D. Oliva, The Conversation, 17 Aug. 2026 Much depended on your bravery, skill, road surface, and entry speed. — New Atlas, 14 Aug. 2026 Although that surplus depended on the district executing an additional $30 million in budget cuts this fall, officials added. — Molly Gibbs, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2026

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Verb

The top 500 employers, ranked based on these results, were named Brazil's Best Employers 2026.

— Charlotte Hu, Time, 26 Aug. 2026
It's based on the company's MQB platform, which underpins the T-Cross subcompact SUV and the Polo hatchback.

— Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2026

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Instead, as is typical under state regulations, the inspector relied on safety and testing data provided by Six Flags that showed X2 had once again met safety standards adopted by the state.

— Blake Ellis, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
The family have relied on private security firms for protection in recent years.

— Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of relied

Verb

The change allowed the parents to successfully argue that the trauma over their son's death counted as a disability that would exempt them from the punitive damages cap.

— Reuters, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2026
Venture capital has a specific reason to care; Crunchbase counted $300 billion of global venture investment in the first quarter of 2026, with four AI rounds accounting for 65% of it.

— Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026