entrust
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Murrin’s case highlights pitfalls that lurk when people entrust someone with their taxes, according to Olson.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026
Major investors and tenants also remain reluctant to entrust multibillion-dollar decisions to unproven platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
When we entrust digital platforms with our biometric data, we hand over unique, irreplaceable biological identifiers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Are the Rams really about to entrust him with the responsibility of projecting their virtues?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2025
“I’ll write a letter to the headmistress, which I shall entrust to you, along with a purse filled with enough KJs to stop her protests against a last-minute pupil.”
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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It added: "Leadership in football is not a possession. It is not about holding - or demanding - power to be held. It is a duty of service to the football family that entrusts it."
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Constitution entrusts Congress with the power to “declare war.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Our legal system entrusts trial judges with a wide swath of discretionary decisions in ruling on evidence, framing jury instructions, and controlling other facets of the cases they try, with barely any appellate supervision.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2024
In her tribute on Instagram, Lopez shared a series of photos of them together and a clip from a touching scene between their characters in which Santos entrusts Wozniak to care for her daughter.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2022
"He entrusts some small matters to us, to lighten his load."
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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The World Cup semifinal — one of the biggest matches a referee can officiate — had just been entrusted to the Salvadoran.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
A single cremation cost about £500, Paxton added, but Bush "chose not to deal with those bodies entrusted to him but to operate as he chose and spend the money on himself and others".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
“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
I felt honored to be entrusted with it.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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"It's inhumane. We've been entrusting him to the centre," Noorman said.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
“A country entrusting lethal decisions to a system that doesn’t share its loyalties is taking a profound risk, even if that system is trying to be principled,” Claude added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 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
Then she places all the books next to me, very carefully, like they are precious rubies she is entrusting to me.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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