entrust
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I vowed to entrust the job to our electrician if I could ever extricate myself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
Murrin’s case highlights pitfalls that lurk when people entrust someone with their taxes, according to Olson.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026
Major investors and tenants also remain reluctant to entrust multibillion-dollar decisions to unproven platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
But after the LAFD’s failures in the Palisades fire, some voters may be reluctant to entrust its leaders with more money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
Night had fallen and the greater darkness, the payment for the voluntary summoning of the body’s full strength, was coming hard upon me; to darkness I must entrust myself, and him.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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It added: "Leadership in football is not a possession. It is not about holding - or demanding - power to be held. It is a duty of service to the football family that entrusts it."
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Constitution entrusts Congress with the power to “declare war.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
International protocol entrusts each nation with policing its own athletes, so it was China’s anti-doping agency that initially tested the swimmers, finding evidence of trimetazidine, a medication that increases blood flow to the heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024
Our legal system entrusts trial judges with a wide swath of discretionary decisions in ruling on evidence, framing jury instructions, and controlling other facets of the cases they try, with barely any appellate supervision.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2024
"He entrusts some small matters to us, to lighten his load."
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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The World Cup semifinal — one of the biggest matches a referee can officiate — had just been entrusted to the Salvadoran.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Surely someone rich people entrusted with so much was special?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Bush, 48, was "entrusted by hundreds of bereaved families" but had "breached that trust on an almost industrial scale in a myriad of ways", Paxton said.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
A probe into donations allegedly siphoned off at India's grand Ram temple has renewed scrutiny of how religious sites manage vast amounts of cash and gold entrusted to them by devotees.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
The old woman he’d entrusted Koffi to a short while ago was still wearing the modest black tunic she’d had on before, but she was no longer old.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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Asked about entrusting such a project to Riyadh despite criticism of its human rights record, his office said: "At no point, when we attract a project, do we seek to lecture others."
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
As AI takes over more menial tasks, companies are entrusting interns with bigger responsibilities—from leading projects to business trips abroad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
"I am deeply grateful to His Majesty The King for entrusting me with this responsibility and for granting me access to her papers, " Dr Keay said.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
Amazon has suffered a spate of outages, some of them lasting hours, since it began entrusting more software coding responsibilities to AI bots while laying off human engineers, according to the Financial Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
After entrusting my papers to Peter’s care, I went back downstairs.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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