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trusty

[truhs-tee] / ˈtrʌs ti /
ADJECTIVE
trustworthy
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She implemented wry wit like a tactical defense, a trusty tool in her arsenal that could disarm an opponent and defuse tricky conversations.

From Salon Aug. 28, 2026

But the chances started to become more frequent, and soon it was the trusty left boot of Tierney that unlocked the door, allowing Nygren to head home from six yards out with a pinpoint cross.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Beyond Yamamoto, Ohtani and trusty veteran Tyler Glasnow, the Dodgers’ back end of the rotation is still taking shape.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 16, 2026

This year, the trusty statistical model on kenpom.com gives No. 1 seeds Duke, Arizona and Michigan a combined championship probability of 57.9%.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 16, 2026

He was Jefferson’s trusty servant, permitted to travel alone with important papers or to collect money that was owed to Jefferson.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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

“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

Problem is, those low-level inmates — called trusties — are the ones who do all the work.

From Seattle Times Aug. 7, 2017

The guards gave each other high fives, the inmate trusties walked away silently, and Joe sat motionlessly in his chair in the middle of the room, looking down at his feet.

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

A truer, nobler, trustier heart, More loving, or more loyal, never beat Within a human breast.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

“Yeah!” remains irresistible — and among the most successful homages to one of pop music’s trustiest syllables.

From New York Times Sep. 26, 2023

Email a photo of you and your trustiest ride to us at [email protected].

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 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

Am I to be schooled in my duty by rapacious malcontents, and to be driven to put away my trustiest friends, to make room for such thirsty leeches and coarse rufflers as John Coode?

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by John P. Kennedy




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