trustingly

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Recent Examples of trustingly Films of striking social relevance that never fall to polemic or sensationalism, but instead so trustingly fulfill their characters’ plight and courage. Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Sep. 2025
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Adverb
  • On December 18, 2025, the North Carolina Chief Medical Examiner’s Office, with assistance from the North Carolina SBI Crime Lab, positively identified the remains as Bethany Brown.
    Mark Price January 7, Charlotte Observer, 7 Jan. 2026
  • After starting positively under Dyche, Forest have lost their past four games, leaving them four points above West Ham in 17th.
    Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • The classically louche yet confidently glitzy Golden Globes energy had been missing for much of the night until Roberts, a true movie star who couldn’t care less, came onstage to present the award for Best Musical or Comedy.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Maybe this is as close as critics and artists are ever likely to ever get — sitting at different tables in the same oversized pan-Asian restaurant in front of a giant Quan Yin statue that Adrien Brody so confidently misidentified as Shiva last year.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • Pynchon is clearly a huge fan of detective fiction and quotes approvingly from the genre while not quite wanting to immerse himself fully within it.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Rotwood approvingly sees no such sentimentality in Wednesday.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Trustingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trustingly. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.

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