RELIABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reliably mean? 

• RELIABLY (adverb)
  The adverb RELIABLY has 1 sense:

1. in a faithful manner

  Familiarity information: RELIABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELIABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a faithful manner

Synonyms:

dependably; faithfully; reliably

Context example:

it always came on, faithfully, like the radio

Antonym:

unreliably (in an unfaithful undependable unreliable manner)

Pertainym:

reliable (worthy of reliance or trust)

 Context examples 

At these high resolutions, there is enough information in the structure to reliably assist drug design and development efforts.

(Near-atomic resolution of protein structure by electron microscopy holds promise for drug discovery, NIH)

But doctors don’t have a way to reliably predict which tumors will progress and which are unlikely to cause problems.

(Biomarker Signatures of Prostate Cancer, NIH)

This suggests that uniform control over size is critical in order to use them reliably as components in electronics.

(Materials for the next generation of electronics and photovoltaics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They have made significant strides in reliably engineering human heart muscle that mimics adult myocardium.

(Early stimulation improves performance of bioengineered human heart cells, National Institutes of Health)

Once he had the plants growing reliably, he observed what Janzen had seen in the wild a half-century before.

(Between ants and acacias, timing is everything, National Science Foundation)

They've trained their eyes to search for ancient lake margins, where megafauna are reliably found.

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)

Notably, from the miRNA blood sample taken before the study began, 14 miRNAs reliably predicted behavioral attention performance during TSD, 7 miRNAs reliably predicted cognitive throughput performance during TSD and 10 miRNAs reliably predicted memory performance.

(Why Lack of Sleep Affects Some More Than Others, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Now that Dawn can reliably communicate with Earth again, mission controllers have programmed the maneuvers necessary for the next stage of the rendezvous, which they label the Ceres approach phase.

(Dawn Spacecraft Begins Approach to Dwarf Planet Ceres, NASA)

Findings show that people's eye movements reveal whether they are sociable, conscientious or curious, with the algorithm software reliably recognizing four of the Big Five personality traits: neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.

(Eyes Can Indicate Personality Type, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Already in 2015, the same research group published a meta-study in the journal Intelligence, in which they identified brain regions — among them the prefrontal cortex — activation changes of which are reliably associated with individual differences in intelligence.

(Smart People Have Better Connected Brains, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)