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reliable

adjective accurate, assured, authentic, certain, competent, conclusive, conscientious, constant, credible, definite, dependable, devoted, evidential, exact, faithful, genuine, guaranteed, honest, honorable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, irrefutable, legitimate, loyal, proved, real, reputable, respectable, responsible, safe, scrupulous, secure, sincere, sound, stable, stanch, steadfast, steady, strong, sure, tried, true, trustworthy, trusty, truthful, undeniable, unerring, unfailing, unhazardous, unperilous, upright, veracious, veridical, worthy of trust
Associated concepts: reliable evidence, reliable testimony, reliable witness

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The president himself is rated as a reliable source of information about Iraq by 50% of Americans and the vice president is viewed as a reliable source by 46%.

Americans Assess the Reliability of Information Sources on Iraq; Most say commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. Petraeus, is reliable

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For the delivery of non-multimedia, reliable traffic via IP multicast, several proprietary protocols exist, including the Multicast File Transport Protocol (MFTP), the Multicast Transport Protocol (MTP), and the Reliable Adaptive Multicast Protocol (RAMP).