distrust

Driven by social media hype and a growing distrust of public health guidance, consumer demand for experimental peptides has exploded over the last decade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

COVID-19 created the conditions in which conspiracy theories flourish: enormous uncertainty, frightening consequences, rapidly changing information and distrust of institutions.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

And it would give the American public, who increasingly distrust the technology and the companies behind it, a sense of ownership and wonderment rather than exclusion and worry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Given his parents’ distrust of the stock market, his choice of job wasn’t obvious.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

My mother, Aphrodite, cursed Psyche for her distrust.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

One community member distrusts dialogue to begin with, calling it a means to “give up something.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2026

He is devoutly religious with a deep libertarian streak, an establishmentarian who distrusts most of today’s establishments, and a traditionalist who is skeptical of the world’s oldest currency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

As a result, the public distrusts the court system and holds the judicial profession in low regard.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2025

In Ukraine, where polls consistently show that about 95% of the population distrusts Putin, there is a uneasy mix of deep scepticism about the talks and deep fatigue with the war.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2025

Unless a group of little girls chanted some especially clever riddle, my mother, who distrusts people with public concerns, braggarts, went over to the quiet older girls with the dignified bows.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

Greenspan was considered a “maestro” who read the economy by feel and distrusted mechanical rules.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

David embraced aristocratic country life and distrusted outsiders; Sydney enjoyed London, music and company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

After more than a decade of Nazi ascendance, the party and the barons who would bail them out still distrusted one another.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2025

"The trouble is I was spoilt. I was exceptionally lucky that I was the individual he distrusted least," said Mr Smythe, now 83.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025

Much as she distrusted the admiral, his absence made her feel panicky.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

They’re initially suspicious and distrusting of each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

As a colleague he could be distrusting and wary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

But distrusting the Fed and abandoning the dollar are completely different moves.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025

Initially distrusting of him, Bailey eventually finds him to be a kind of mentor and protector, which gives her a new perspective on life.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2024

Maybe something had happened with him, something that made her sad and distrusting of haints.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland