mistrust
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Major job-search platforms say they are focused on what’s phony and sowing mistrust.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
The health response lacks sufficient resources and has been overwhelmed by the surge in cases, while there has been widespread mistrust in parts of the community.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
It was a time of deep-rooted mistrust in policing and a street code that forbade snitching to authorities.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
“There’s a lot of mistrust for the status quo right now,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The birth of modern science—the offspring of theory and observation— teetered on the precipice of their mutual mistrust.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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
I think we created unneeded media columns of speculation about who mistrusts who.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2022
He mistrusts the bureaucracy but will need to use it to cope with so many hot spots at once.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 24, 2018
He mistrusts this wit because he finds it "corroding and disintegrating"; but he makes the comparison with that casual assurance which is a feature of American criticism.
From Americans and Others by Agnes Repplier
She mistrusted the comfort of a collective identity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
This new wave of Chinese migrants – many of them still awaiting asylum – now feel themselves caught in a pincer: mistrusted by Americans, unwanted by Beijing, and sometimes suspended in legal limbo.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
USC insisted that complaints be first processed under the university’s internal Title IX office — which many students said they mistrusted due to delays and other deficiencies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 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
Frank had no telephone, and in any case, he had deeply mistrusted the police ever since they had taken him in for questioning about the Riddles’ deaths.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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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