Example Sentences
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Greenspan was considered a “maestro” who read the economy by feel and distrusted mechanical rules.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 23, 2026
David embraced aristocratic country life and distrusted outsiders; Sydney enjoyed London, music and company.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
After more than a decade of Nazi ascendance, the party and the barons who would bail them out still distrusted one another.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2025
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking and writing about how such a reliable form of birth control can be so distrusted by many who use it.
From Slate • Aug. 23, 2024
Somewhere a machine began to hum and I distrusted the man and woman above me.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
