trust
noun
reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
are trusting
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present progressiveof trust.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"Boakai strikes me as a grandfather figure – someone you would trust with your life. And now we are trusting him with the country's life," said scholar and activist Robtel Neajai Pailey.
From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2023
I just continually ask myself why people are trusting Tether.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2023
"When customers pay up front for their energy, they are trusting their supplier to look after their hard-earned money," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2022
The Dodgers are trusting that Taylor, Lux and whoever else plays in left can hold their own — and that the rest of their star-studded batting order can absorb the blow of Pollock’s departure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
“Hubert Bazin. You are trusting Hubert Bazin? You are cooking secret codes into bread?”
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
