trusted

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McConnell once called Biden ‘a real friend’ and a ‘trusted partner.’

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2019

They 'trusted in the mountain of Samaria,' which, they thought, made the city impregnable to assault.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander

The chairman, a weaselly minister with a reddish nose, lamented Crumpleton's absence, soliloquized on his influenza, and gave me a certificate as a 'trusted leader of Australian thought'.

From The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan, John

"But they told me something else," I said, struggling to command myself;—"they told me that I had not 'trusted in Him.'"

From Daisy by Warner, Susan

I said, truly, then that I 'trusted you,' meaning I knew that in such matters you did not 'opine'—and that innumerable things were within your horizon which had no place within mine.

From On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John