entrust
verb (used with object)
has entrusted
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present perfectof entrust (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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"The Governor has entrusted my office with this investigation, and we do not take that responsibility lightly," James added.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Renault has decided to imitate the Chinese by developing its new models in two years, and has entrusted the development of its electric Twingo to its research and development centre in China.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
In his message to the Builders AI Forum at the Pontifical Gregorian University on Nov. 7, he wrote that AI, “like all human invention, springs from the creative capacity that God has entrusted to us.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
Luna, like his predecessors Alex Villanueva and McDonnell, has entrusted Fratantoni to not just help preserve the department’s history but also imprint its importance on the men and women who are its present and future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
The emperor has entrusted to us twenty thousand Frenchmen, and not a coward among them.
From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt
