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trust

[truhst] / trʌst /








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What is another word for trust?
There may not be a substitute for trust in life, but there are a few different terms that can sometimes be used to replace the word. Trust is a form of confidence. Saying that you have trust in someone is often the same as saying you have confidence in them or that you place your hope or faith in them. Trust is often a firm belief that someone or something won’t let you down. Trust is also a verb meaning to have such confidence. To trust someone in this way is often to rely on, count on, depend on, or even believe in them. Having someone you can trust is having someone you can turn to. When two people trust each other, they can be said to have a mutual trust. The word trustworthiness is the noun form of the adjective trustworthy, which describes someone who has earned your trust. Someone who has trust in someone else can be described as trusting. Sometimes, this can imply that the person trusts others too easily. A similar (but less common) word is trustful. As a verb, trust can also mean something like presume, as in I trust we won’t have any problems here.
What is another word for a lack of trust?
A lack of trust is the absence of trust. Saying that there is a lack of trust may mean that there is no trust at all or that someone or something falls short of full trust. The opposite of trust is distrust. (The word mistrust often means the same thing but is less commonly used.) You may have doubts, misgivings, suspicions, or skepticism about someone or something that you distrust.

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The bullet points included starting with strong, committed ownership; delivering a good product; establishing credibility and trust with fans and media; and hiring good people and letting them do their jobs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

Four months later, Paxton’s family trust purchased an oceanview lot in a residential neighborhood there for $410,000, land records show.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

King Charles III has warned of the challenges disinformation and other "hostile online activity" pose to trust and security in the digital age.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

That threat shapes how we move through the world, who we trust, and where we go.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

I just wish she’d stop trying to impress upon me how important this is and trust that I get it.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

City boss Enzo Maresca has said he "trusts" his own club.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

In 2023, NHS England wrote to mental health trusts saying monitoring technology should not be introduced as a blanket approach and decisions should be made for each patient individually.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The Japanese company said it would acquire shares of IntraBio from existing shareholders, including individuals, trusts and corporate entities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

But Parton planned out a strategy for her businesses and philanthropic work to continue through trusts, the details of which are not public.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

“But I know that Dumbledore trusts Hagrid to the hilt, so I’m sure he can’t be up to anything very dreadful...”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Richard Nixon famously fired his trusted aides H.R.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

We have tort law, consumer safety statutes, etc.—and they’re working, as was obvious in April when Anthropic withheld Mythos from distribution except to trusted partners in the battle against cyber hacking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The UK fashion site explained to customers that hackers gained access to an Asos employee account by "impersonating a trusted contact to obtain log in credentials".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Much like the initial debate over the use of forensic DNA testing, Gialamas said, the answer wasn’t to abandon the technology but to create safeguards to “ensure responsible and trusted use.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

“I am actually protesting to my counterparties that there must be fraud in the marketplace for credit default swaps to be at all-time lows,” Burry wrote in an e-mail to an investor he trusted.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

That Musk is considering working with another chip manufacturer could be viewed by investors “as a lack of confidence in trusting the future of his important endeavor to Intel alone,” he added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Travel, she said, requires trusting yourself and trusting the journey.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

But trusting audiences to detect modern parallels on their own might be an even more powerful strategy these days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

She added: "This is the role of a lifetime... Thank you for trusting this Lancashire lass to play a sassy broad like Patricia."

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

He just watched me, trusting, as I touched my fingers to his chest, then my palm.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows




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