How to Use trusting in a Sentence

trusting

adjective
  • No more guessing or trusting fund names alone.
    James Brewer, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Cats are far less trusting than dogs and rarely fall for the pill-in-the-treat ploy.
    Joan Morris, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Well, one of the seven rules is to get trust, give trust, and so Wikipedia has always been very trusting.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Among Boomers, only 6% felt more trusting, while 49% said their views hadn't changed at all.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Police often become less trusting and more suspicious over time.
    Dave Winsborough, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Canoy’s mother said her son was a very trusting and loyal person, and the defendants took advantage of that.
    Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Icardi describes her former boss as kind, professional and trusting.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The first couple spirals into assumptions and resentment, while the second remains steady and trusting.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Leadership is relational work, and warmth can make teams more trusting, more resilient and more willing to do difficult things together.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Its paranoid worldview, where everything is a bug, and systems are always broken—hallucinations—are now frequently taken as true by the other models, who can be too trusting.
    Tharin Pillay, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Cindy Pickett played Ferris' loving, trusting and hilariously oblivious mother in the film.
    Emma Urdangen, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026
  • Experimental research suggests that people are more trusting and empathetic toward those who share their own religion and ethnicity.
    Steve S. Medeiros, The Conversation, 15 June 2026
  • Gallup reported in 2025 that trust in mass media had dropped to 28%, with Democrats remaining far more trusting than Republicans.
    Larry Clifton, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026
  • Highlighting health risks related to extreme weather events and their costs is a particularly important opportunity to engage and motivate those who may be less trusting of climate science.
    Rebecca Florsheim, STAT, 17 July 2026
  • The Common Sense report finds that 50% of teens do not trust the information provided by AI companions, with younger teens significantly more trusting than the older group.
    Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 30 Dec. 2025
  • When leaders model positivity and curiosity, these emotional cues are mirrored unconsciously by others, creating a more trusting, energized culture.
    Anjali Chaudhry, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • By 2024 that gap reached 27 points – not because working-class voters lurched toward anti-government extremism, but because mainstream Democrats became dramatically more trusting of government as an instrument of social change.
    Nicholas Jacobs, The Conversation, 2 June 2026

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