mistrust
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Whether or not you’ve done anything to deserve this mistrust, it seems like your employees feel a bit uneasy.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
There has been deep mistrust between China and India since the 2020 border dispute, but those tensions have eased.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Deep mistrust remains, with their contested Himalayan frontier, a widening trade deficit and strategic rivalry still complicating ties.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
As universities crack down on AI, extreme monitoring policies and false accusations are fueling a deep mistrust between professors and students.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
But despite Alyssa’s obvious mistrust of her, Jacqui’s the only reason we’re still alive right now, whether we like that or not.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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She’s getting more famous — drawing more and more people away from the influencer pop-ups and into her tent at Coachella — her life, in many ways, fulfilling the very impulse she mistrusts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
On the contrary, he mistrusts them, scorning even the praise heaped upon him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Johann Scholtz, European bank analyst at Morningstar, mistrusts the earnings expectations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025
Intelligence officials say that Moscow was initially hesitant to reach out to Tehran, whose leaders it mistrusts and whose nuclear ambitions it has consistently opposed.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2022
There was a moment's silence, during which the cousins gazed at each other; the Count sternly and reproachfully, Baltasar with dilated eyeballs and all the symptoms of one who mistrusts the evidence of his senses.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various
She mistrusted the comfort of a collective identity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
“The human rights people mistrusted the military, the military distrusted the guerrillas.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
Involving the Shin Bet, which is deeply mistrusted by Palestinian citizens, is another sign of the tone deafness, critics say.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
Dr Mahathir, the first Malaysian leader not to be educated in Britain, mistrusted Western influence.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2022
He mistrusted his own judgment, and thought perhaps the child might be saved, if the fever could be brought down.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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To the Ukrainian leader -- seen as mistrusting of those with political ambitions or popular appeal -- the ever-loyal Syrsky, a career military man, was in many respects an ideal commander.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Together with a delegation of deeply mistrusting negotiators from Tehran, Vance is tasked with striking a lasting peace between rival nations that have failed to keep promises made days ago in a delicate last-minute ceasefire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
"My child started losing faith in me, they started mistrusting me."
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2023
As a result, Ada was mistrusting and suspicious.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
I felt ashamed that I could even think about mistrusting Quintus.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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