trusty

Ben Jones, the actor best known for portraying trusty mechanic Cooter Davenport on “The Dukes of Hazzard” before serving two terms in Congress as a representative from Georgia, has died.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The Conservative MP shared a series of photographs of him with his "trusty companion" set to Angels by Robbie Williams on social media.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

Beyond Yamamoto, Ohtani and trusty veteran Tyler Glasnow, the Dodgers’ back end of the rotation is still taking shape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

Iryna Terekh, the company’s 33-year-old technical director, compares their reliability to that of the Kalashnikov, a trusty rifle lauded for its ruggedness and simplicity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

A great loss, however, was the death of the trusty pilot Palinurus who was drowned as they neared the end of their perils by sea.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The housing area involved, Aloma said, was a dorm in Module 3600 that houses 16 to 20 inmate workers known as trusties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2023

“It’s always sad when one of the trusties has to retire,” Stenson told PGATour.com's Andrew Tursky on Tuesday at the Houston Open.

From Golf Digest ● Oct. 9, 2019

A bit later, Janet took me past the guardhouse, where Sanders used to hang out with the troopers, and the driveway, where her daughter played basketball with prison trusties who worked at the mansion.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018

Problem is, those low-level inmates — called trusties — are the ones who do all the work.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2017

Finally, the prisoner trusties suggested lifting the cage and tilting it slightly, which everyone agreed to try.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Or a better, trustier reputation, as opposed to one that investors and potential customers immediately associate with stories about an oddball founder who lost a bunch of money.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2023

The biggest crypto execs and celebrities believe that they are the industry’s adults in the room, here to offer a better and trustier product than Bankman-Fried did.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2023

Her backhand was the trustier weapon, and Gauff drilled one down the line to claim her first game.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2022

That was enough to kick off a jam session lasting another hour, with Phumiphon, joined by some of his own royal band, switching between his brand-new clarinet and his trustier saxophone.

From Time Magazine Archive

I shall never find a trustier, truer friend.

From The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Constance Garnett

Then again, there are times when Misiorowski doesn’t need anything else besides his trustiest weapon: a fastball so good that even big-leaguers usually can’t catch up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

It’s among the trustiest truisms of show business.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2021

IT WAS the dismissal and flight abroad of Robert Mugabe’s oldest and trustiest lieutenant that finally led to his downfall.

From Economist ● Nov. 16, 2017

The real potential in YouNow celebrity is not that broadcasters will become movie stars some day—it’s that social media broadcasting will soon subsume film as the world’s trustiest star-making vehicle.

From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2015

"Life, name two of your trustiest men," he added in a low tone to the sergeant.

From A Lieutenant at Eighteen by Oliver Optic