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entrust

[en-truhst] / ɛnˈtrʌst /


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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

Always there for him to confide in, complain to and entrust with his continually evolving thoughts on Jewish life and theology, Kaplan called these ledger-size handwritten volumes his “communings of the spirit.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

Murrin’s case highlights pitfalls that lurk when people entrust someone with their taxes, according to Olson.

From MarketWatch Feb. 27, 2026

They are "very clear and intentional about laying out the brand values and ethos", then "entrust you to go execute".

From BBC Nov. 12, 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

Constitution entrusts Congress with the power to “declare war.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 3, 2026

Editor Eleanor Infante entrusts the movie’s energy to montages: fashion shoots, photo booths, feeding frenzies.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2025

Even the power to decide which crimes to prosecute, which the Constitution entrusts solely to the executive branch, has its limits.

From Slate Jul. 23, 2024

“God’s faithful people, gathered here, now accompanies and entrusts to him the life of the one who was their pastor,” Francis said.

From New York Times Jan. 5, 2023

"He entrusts some small matters to us, to lighten his load."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

“We are honored to be entrusted as the next stewards of the Seattle Seahawks,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Boeing deferred questions about the timeframe to the Air Force but said it is an "honor to be entrusted" with the contract.

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

The National Symphony did pull off the premiere of Peter Boyer’s “American Mosaic,” and it was to the Altadena composer that Philadelphia, this time around, entrusted its Declaration of Independence commemoration.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

Romain told Le Parisien last week that, a few days after his mother's disappearance, Garcia entrusted him to his father, who was by then living in Madrid with a wife and children.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Paul, 67, a retired postman from Lowestoft, Suffolk, said that in 2008 his father received a flyer explaining how to protect his assets by entrusting his home over to Long and UWP.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

To do that, she has to leave home, separating herself from her upbringing and entrusting SaraLee to her family’s care.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 17, 2026

As these concerns mount, few in the industry have addressed the character of their AI models in quite the same way as 5-year-old Anthropic: by entrusting a single person with so much of the task.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 9, 2026

He flies around Texas in a private jet, but it belongs to the much wealthier people entrusting him to handle their business.

From Salon Nov. 16, 2025

It becomes a compulsory act on the one who knows to ensure that this entrusting does not occur.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali




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