trusty
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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
Ben Jones, the actor best known for portraying trusty mechanic Cooter Davenport on “The Dukes of Hazzard” before serving two terms in Congress as a representative from Georgia, has died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Our trusty babysitter in the back—our dog Huckleberry—also needed to make a pit stop or two.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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
My trusty underthings saved the day for me and for those three children.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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
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
Nay, look not forth with those deep earnest eyes To catch the gleaming of your lovers' plumes; A dearer, surer, trustier passion lies In sisters' hearts than lovers' cheeks illumes.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various
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
Email a photo of you and your trustiest ride to us at [email protected].
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2018
IT WAS the dismissal and flight abroad of Robert Mugabe’s oldest and trustiest lieutenant that finally led to his downfall.
From Economist ● Nov. 16, 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
Morgan ordered the women and priests to be double-guarded by the trustiest, and it was well that he did so.
From Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main by Will Crawford
