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reliable

 adjective
     
re‧li‧a‧ble
someone or something that is reliable can be trusted or depended on [= dependable; ↪ rely]:
a birth control method that is cheap and reliable
Miller was a quiet and reliable man.
—reliably adverb
—reliability noun [uncountable]
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