reliable source
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreliableandsource
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reliable
adjective
uk/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/us/rɪˈlaɪ.ə.bəl/
Someone or something that is reliable can be trusted or believed because he, she, or it works or behaves well in the way ...
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source
noun[C]
uk/sɔːs/us/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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(Definition ofreliableandsourcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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That is so because you believe your professor is a morereliablesourceof information-about the information concerned in this dialogue, at least-than your friend.
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Graduate students and research geologists, in particular, will find it a clear andreliablesourceof good practice and good sense on quantitative structural geology.
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An archaeologist himself, he claims his discipline to be a morereliablesourcefor cultural history than often-contaminated oral traditions.
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For many of these citizens wells probably provided a better and morereliablesourceof water than the waterleaders.
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This system has been proved to be areliablesourcefor actual resource utilization of patients.
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Of course the censuses taken in the colonies at that time cannot be considered a veryreliablesource.
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School nurses were seen as areliablesourceof help by some callers.
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While this arrangement could provide cyanobacteria with a morereliablesourceof fixed nitrogen, it would not be cheap.
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In qualitative research, all opinions of participants are valid, and first-hand experience is areliablesourceof knowledge.
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This practice not only made possible the formation and perpetuation of local oligarchies but also provided areliablesourceof political support to the president.
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Pharmaceutical manufacturers would have a morereliablesourceof funding and realize increased incentives to pursue breakthrough innovations.
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The first is that there must be areliablesourcefor the work itself, a source, he adds in loud italics, 'whose nature and origins the critic understands'.
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Open canals and drains from the sugar irrigation scheme run through or beside most districts and provide the onlyreliablesourceof domestic water for many people.
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The orderedness of time permits chronological reasoning in proofs, and time itself acts as areliablesourceof 'freshness'.
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Musical concepts and principles in themselves are generally logically presented and clearly explained and as such, could form areliablesourceof guidance for instrumental teachers.
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A chemical cycle would have a better chance of reproducing itself if it were coupled with an energy cycle, which would ensure areliablesourceof energy.
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This is particularly remarkable given that probate records constitute the most complete andreliablesourcefor an analysis of the size and composition of individual wealth.
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After all, citizens will then know from their own experience what the notes, obtained from areliablesource, look like.
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