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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of trust.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of persons) worthy of trust or confidence

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Examples

  • + ... a company like Yahoo may be able to create more consumer-friendly search by working towards an embrace of open formats and “interoperability” and “participation in a trusted metadata scheme,” but will bias the voice so that a certain “trusted universe” of publishers may be featured, as it were.

    Internet News: Information Industry Archives 2009

  • + ... a company like Yahoo may be able to create more consumer-friendly search by working towards an embrace of open formats and “interoperability” and “participation in a trusted metadata scheme,” but will bias the voice so that a certain “trusted universe” of publishers may be featured, as it were.

    Internet News: April 2008 Archives 2008

  • But he said I must, and he trusted me, he _trusted_ me to tell the truth and the whole truth, and I can't deceive him; I can't hide anything after that. "

    Elsie's New Relations Martha Finley 1868

  • The right to arrive at a mutually agreed upon definition of the term trusted partner

    InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 2009

  • Mr Colvin said he relied on what he called trusted sources for much of his information.

    BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition 2009

  • He allows certain "trusted" people (his quotes) to post entries on his blog, and one of them placed the telemarketing post, he says.

    Billings Blog David 2003

  • He allows certain "trusted" people (his quotes) to post entries on his blog, and one of them placed the telemarketing post, he says.

    Archive 2003-09-01 David 2003

  • But now this woman who he never trusted is his only help, the only one who is on his side and the one person he can use to prevent the launching of the Explorer 1 an make it a fantastic exploding firework display – the failure of the Capitalists and the triumph of the Communists.

    2010 March 28 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • Now Mahmoud, who is described as trusted and who refused to allow the army to participate in the violence, is involved in all key committee decisions.

    'Liberated' from Gaddafi, Libyan city of Tobruk constructs committees for order 2011

  • Now Mahmoud, who is described as trusted and who refused to allow the army to participate in the violence, is involved in all key committee decisions.

    'Liberated' from Gaddafi, Libyan city of Tobruk constructs committees for order 2011

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