entrusted

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Basketball is harsh on its youngest stars—multi-billion dollar franchises entrusted to people not old enough to order a glass of Beaujolais.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

For years, Noorman had entrusted his two young children to Little Aresha, a daycare centre near his home in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta which advertises its well-equipped facilities and variety of play activities.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

Realizing he’d be unable to direct his fictionalized childhood remembrance, he entrusted it to his mentee Akin, the firebrand behind modern German classics such as “Head-On” and “In the Fade.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

The future of Apple is being entrusted to a company veteran said to combine hardware brilliance with "the soul of an innovator."

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

She had had a taste of it lately, having been entrusted with taking a pulse and temperature under supervision and marking the readings on a chart.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan