distrust

Example Sentences

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"There can be distrust from parents if they don't understand how these things are used."

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

Incorrect warnings can cause costly evacuations, economic disruption, and public distrust of monitoring systems.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

The toxic turn between OpenAI and Anthropic fuels distrust and threatens to further rupture consensus around still-evolving safety practices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

How the attention economy, distrust of all authority, and an actual crime turned a suburban Arizona street into the place to be for certain content creators.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

The deep dislike and distrust the Romans felt toward Cleopatra only increased when Caesar reformed the Roman calendar to match the Egyptian method of tracking the year.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby