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McConnell once called Biden ‘a real friend’ and a ‘trusted partner.’

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2019

The chairman, a weaselly minister with a reddish nose, lamented Crumpleton's absence, soliloquized on his influenza, and gave me a certificate as a 'trusted leader of Australian thought'.

From The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan, John

They 'trusted in the mountain of Samaria,' which, they thought, made the city impregnable to assault.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander

"You do not seem like a man that could not be 'trusted.'"

From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

But they told me something else," I said, struggling to command myself; "they told me that I had not 'trusted in Him.'

From Daisy by Warner, Susan