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- noun Plural form of
dependable .
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Examples
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So there are a lot of dependables on which the relative performance of Asia will be judged.
Q&A: Standard Chartered's Asia CEO Megha Bahree 2011
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Use green to highlight clothes that have now become dependables—“best friend” clothes that help form the backbone of your wardrobe.
“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003
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What did Linda discover when she began analyzing her list and highlighting her favorites, dependables, and mistakes?
“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003
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Use green to highlight clothes that have now become dependables—“best friend” clothes that help form the backbone of your wardrobe.
“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003
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What did Linda discover when she began analyzing her list and highlighting her favorites, dependables, and mistakes?
“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003
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Gaudy bows and ties, striped shirts, congress shoes and other dependables never possessed by the wearers previously, began to make their appearance.
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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While rigid plastic dolls and die-cast model cars are the old dependables, novelties are vital to the toy trade.
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While rigid plastic dolls and die-cast model cars are the old dependables, novelties are vital to the toy trade.
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IRONIC because they are National Guardsmen, they are trained to guard the nation itself, during times of unrest or disaster they are supposed to be the federal government's dependables.
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