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She implemented wry wit like a tactical defense, a trusty tool in her arsenal that could disarm an opponent and defuse tricky conversations.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

With his trusty bow and arrow, he hunts game and safeguards his twin sister Asa – who, for unexplained reasons, resides behind bars in a dark cell.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Our trusty babysitter in the back—our dog Huckleberry—also needed to make a pit stop or two.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Working with his trusty producers Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson, Styles builds gorgeously detailed grooves like the blissed-out gospel-house “Aperture”; “Are You Listening Yet?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026

So I got my trusty hammer and screwdriver.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

I looked for the two trusties, but they seemed to have disappeared.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

Walpole realized that to govern Ireland from England he must have a trustier aid, a heavier hand, and a more vigilant eye, than were afforded in Carteret.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Jonathan Swift

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 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

One of the trustiest ways for comedians to elicit laughs is to say the things they – or we – are not supposed to say.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2012

Some day you'll find out that it isn't the politest folks that's the trustiest, or sticks to you the faithfullest.

From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Maud Wilder Goodwin