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entrust

[en-truhst] / ɛnˈtrʌst /


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Some takeaways from Elm as we entrust more of our lives to AI: The models understood better than most humans how to size simple bets like coin flips.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

Always there for him to confide in, complain to and entrust with his continually evolving thoughts on Jewish life and theology, Kaplan called these ledger-size handwritten volumes his “communings of the spirit.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

Murrin’s case highlights pitfalls that lurk when people entrust someone with their taxes, according to Olson.

From MarketWatch Feb. 27, 2026

But after the LAFD’s failures in the Palisades fire, some voters may be reluctant to entrust its leaders with more money.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 17, 2025

Night had fallen and the greater darkness, the payment for the voluntary summoning of the body’s full strength, was coming hard upon me; to darkness I must entrust myself, and him.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Constitution entrusts Congress with the power to “declare war.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 3, 2026

Ohtani instead entrusts the team’s public relations staff to decline interviews on his behalf.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 9, 2025

“God’s faithful people, gathered here, now accompanies and entrusts to him the life of the one who was their pastor,” Francis said of Benedict’s final passage.

From New York Times Jan. 5, 2023

“Our legislature entrusts law enforcement to make those difficult and somber decisions.”

From Seattle Times Mar. 15, 2022

"He entrusts some small matters to us, to lighten his load."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

“We are honored to be entrusted as the next stewards of the Seattle Seahawks,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Buddhist monks are highly venerated in Thailand, entrusted with preserving and passing on the Buddha's teachings.

From Barron's Jul. 3, 2026

The National Symphony did pull off the premiere of Peter Boyer’s “American Mosaic,” and it was to the Altadena composer that Philadelphia, this time around, entrusted its Declaration of Independence commemoration.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

Romain told Le Parisien last week that, a few days after his mother's disappearance, Garcia entrusted him to his father, who was by then living in Madrid with a wife and children.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

The most crucial task of all she had entrusted to Daario Naharis, glib-tongued Daario with his gold tooth and trident beard, smiling his wicked smile through purple whiskers.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Paul, 67, a retired postman from Lowestoft, Suffolk, said that in 2008 his father received a flyer explaining how to protect his assets by entrusting his home over to Long and UWP.

From BBC Jul. 18, 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

In a statement Tuesday, D’Amaro expressed gratitude to Disney’s board “for entrusting me with leading a company that means so much to me and millions around the world.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 4, 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

“You mean aside from the fact that he broke his silence to speak to you? That he’s entrusting his story to you?”

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman




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