How to Use reliability in a Sentence

reliability

noun
  • The heat has put a focus on the reliability of the electricity grid in the state.
    — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
  • This leads to better reliability, which means a taxi doesn’t have to be in the shop as often.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Much of the ire is focused on the ISO’s claims of reliability concerns.
    — Jan Ellen Spiegel, courant.com, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The rocket and spacecraft will have to fly many times to prove its reliability.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • One of the biggest U.S. airline stories all year has been reliability, or the lack of it.
    — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • People will talk about financial metrics: the size and scale of the market cap and the reliability of your earnings and all that.
    — Tharin Pillay, TIME, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Some research also casts doubt on the reliability of the system used to label breasts as dense or not dense.
    — Liz Szabo, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The company plans to put a total of 1 million miles on the trucks to test the system’s reliability and toughness.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Buses that don't pollute the air yet can run the route with the same reliability as those that do, even when cold weather cuts into the battery range.
    — Tom Krisher, ajc, 4 Mar. 2023
  • But a dose of reliability in the form of Addison, a crafty route runner who glides past defenders, would do the group some good.
    — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The stream quality and reliability isn’t on par with what Fubo offers, but still a great option at this price point.
    — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2023
  • At the same time, debates still rage about AI's reliability and long-term safety.
    — Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The fact that so many people are upset about the outage is a tribute to the reliability of the Chromecast paradigm.
    — Ryan Whitwam, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Still, there are some long-term questions on the KF's reliability.
    — PCMAG, 9 Nov. 2022
  • But by the late 1700s, its reliability was questioned by doctors and lawyers.
    — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2023
  • And with a 7-mile round-trip commute, reliability isn’t a life-or-death matter for your daughter.
    — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022
  • This does not impact the reliability of our A220 fleet.
    — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Of course, the prospect of Toyota reliability cannot be overlooked, either.
    — Jacob Kurowicki, Car and Driver, 12 July 2023
  • Again, even with no rules in place, the power sector achieved what industry claimed would lead to steep costs and reliability problems.
    — David Hawkins, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The low number of deaths in China has also cast suspicion on the reliability of the data.
    — Bloomberg.com, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Discord launched in 2015 in a beta testing phase and found fans among gamers who liked the platform’s anonymity, reliability and focus on voice and text over video.
    — Shannon Liao, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
  • In fact, my mom has been wearing this style since the 1980s, and always brags about their unbeatable comfort and reliability.
    — Alexandra Domrongchai, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2024
  • As the tiny switches in computer chips have shrunk to the width of a few atoms, the reliability of chips has become another worry for the people who run the biggest networks in the world.
    — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • And a year ago, the company shored up reliability and sound quality concerns with the Ear 2.
    — Chris Welch, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Its reliability has come with a steep cost to consumers.
    — Galit Altstein, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Over the days since Ashford’s emergence in the scrimmage, Freeze’s decision to go back to naming Thorne the starter came down to his leadership and reliability.
    — Matt Cohen | [email protected], al, 18 Aug. 2023
  • With concerns over the future of service, Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd aim to stand out with their own reliability goals.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 31 Jan. 2025
  • This brand is a mainstay for preparing sushi rice and Japanese food, so with the steep price tag comes brand reliability.
    — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Yet, despite the enormous potential of AI, the explosive growth of data centers has collided with rapidly eroding grid reliability and a tightening power supply.
    — Terry Jarrett, Boston Herald, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Last year, Sacramento Regional Transit dedicated a project to address delays by reworking the schedule to have trains run every 15 minutes to improve transportation reliability.
    — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 30 Mar. 2025

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