entrust
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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
Major investors and tenants also remain reluctant to entrust multibillion-dollar decisions to unproven platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
Miles said he did not want to entrust the tickets to the postal system, so he arranged to meet Kai's customers in hotels across England to hand them over personally.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
“If I were Ella St. Clay and I wanted to protect each page, what better way than to entrust each key with the one person who lived through the story!”
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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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
Even the power to decide which crimes to prosecute, which the Constitution entrusts solely to the executive branch, has its limits.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2024
That’s especially true for the police to whom the public entrusts great power.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2023
"He entrusts some small matters to us, to lighten his load."
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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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
Suspicion has risen across the board toward the institutions that were entrusted in various forms with checking—from universities and government bodies to the press, credit agencies and legal institutions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Having given the infant Sinner an introduction to life on skis in his fourth winter, he was entrusted with tennis lessons the following summer.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
In Stewart’s view, what a jury was not to be trusted to do without the guidance given in the Georgia statute, they could now be entrusted to do.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026
Her daily job of setting out the newspapers was simple but came with responsibility, as it meant that the faculty entrusted her with the keys to the library.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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“A country entrusting lethal decisions to a system that doesn’t share its loyalties is taking a profound risk, even if that system is trying to be principled,” Claude added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 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
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
They fled Austria after the Nazi annexation in 1938, entrusting the painting to a woman, who later moved to Hungary.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
After entrusting my papers to Peter’s care, I went back downstairs.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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