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trusty

[truhs-tee] / ˈtrʌs ti /
ADJECTIVE
trustworthy
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They could just restore the data from Pixar’s trusty backup systems.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

The Conservative MP shared a series of photographs of him with his "trusty companion" set to Angels by Robbie Williams on social media.

From BBC May 22, 2026

It was a trusty workhorse, a 12-year-old Ford Fiesta with 100,000 miles on the clock.

From BBC Feb. 7, 2026

Lotus Two Slice Toaster – My trusty $20 toaster recently gave up the ghost, and I didn’t realize how much I’d been settling until I dropped a bagel into the Lotus two-slice.

From Salon Nov. 20, 2025

It did indeed turn into the trusty guitar in due course, but not before it had cross-fertilised with another medieval instrument, the citole, whose chief successor in England was unhelpfully called the cittern.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The housing area involved, Aloma said, was a dorm in Module 3600 that houses 16 to 20 inmate workers known as trusties.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2023

Wearing his trademark cowboy hat and boots, Blakely said he had fewer privileges than jail trusties and denied receiving special treatment from his former staff.

From Seattle Times Oct. 5, 2021

“It’s always sad when one of the trusties has to retire,” Stenson told PGATour.com's Andrew Tursky on Tuesday at the Houston Open.

From Golf Digest Oct. 9, 2019

A bit later, Janet took me past the guardhouse, where Sanders used to hang out with the troopers, and the driveway, where her daughter played basketball with prison trusties who worked at the mansion.

From The New Yorker Sep. 17, 2018

Finally, the prisoner trusties suggested lifting the cage and tilting it slightly, which everyone agreed to try.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Or a better, trustier reputation, as opposed to one that investors and potential customers immediately associate with stories about an oddball founder who lost a bunch of money.

From Slate Nov. 8, 2023

The biggest crypto execs and celebrities believe that they are the industry’s adults in the room, here to offer a better and trustier product than Bankman-Fried did.

From Slate Oct. 3, 2023

Her backhand was the trustier weapon, and Gauff drilled one down the line to claim her first game.

From Washington Post Jun. 4, 2022

That was enough to kick off a jam session lasting another hour, with Phumiphon, joined by some of his own royal band, switching between his brand-new clarinet and his trustier saxophone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Walpole realized that to govern Ireland from England he must have a trustier aid, a heavier hand, and a more vigilant eye, than were afforded in Carteret.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Swift, Jonathan

Then again, there are times when Misiorowski doesn’t need anything else besides his trustiest weapon: a fastball so good that even big-leaguers usually can’t catch up.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

Smoke is uptown Manhattan’s trustiest home for world-class, straight-ahead jazz; the venue also runs its own in-house record label.

From New York Times Dec. 20, 2018

The protagonist of “A Legacy of Spies” is Peter Guillam, trustiest of Smiley’s operators in the field, who has long since retired to a farm in Brittany.

From Economist Sep. 7, 2017

The real potential in YouNow celebrity is not that broadcasters will become movie stars some day—it’s that social media broadcasting will soon subsume film as the world’s trustiest star-making vehicle.

From Slate Dec. 9, 2015

I sore repent," said he, "of your courage, for hear me that against all the noblest and trustiest knights of the world have I been matched and never yet been beaten.

From Cornwall's Wonderland by Quiller-Couch, Mabel




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