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noun

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Recent Examples of trusty
Adjective
Budding ornithologists don’t need a suitcase full of birdwatching equipment — a trusty birding guide and heaps of patience are often the only tools required to identify plumage, eggs or sounds. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 12 May 2025 With 1:06 left in the fourth quarter, Donovan Mitchell sprayed a pass to his trusty marksman Max Strus for an open three, bang. Mat Issa, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
Noun
Grandma's favorite time-saving trick is to rely on the trusty the slow-cooker to make sweet, tender onions that require little to no stirring. Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2024 Until that day, my trusty yet tired Intel iMac from 5 years ago will have to suffice. Steven Aquino, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for trusty
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trusty
Adjective
  • At a time when trust in institutions is declining, access to reliable information feels harder to come by, and the need for noncommercial, high-quality early-childhood content is greater than ever, public media stands apart as a vital and unifying source.
    Mark G. Contreras, Hartford Courant, 11 May 2025
  • The buttery-soft jeans are my most comfortable denim, and finding a reliable white pair in the past has often been a struggle.
    Ali Faccenda, People.com, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • Analyze and compare training options To evaluate the pros and cons of each training program, this four-step checklist includes a useful rubric.
    Jean Eddy, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • Read our full test and review of more than a dozen stainless steel skillets The best sauté pan: The All-Clad D3 3-quart sauté pan All-Clad D3 3 Quart Sauté Pan $180 $150 Amazon Pros & cons Specs Next verse, same as the first.
    Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • The coloration of light in this image does not depict a true optical rainbow as would be seen by the naked eye, but rather a colored representation of different wavelengths of light that highlight the instrument's capability to analyze various components of the solar atmosphere.
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 15 May 2025
  • Dylan’s life is full of true — meaning real — contradictions.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • In the next scene, Henry is in prison, wearing yellow convict duds, and our first thought is: How is this dweeb going to survive there for five minutes?
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 May 2025
  • Could the president pardon anyone Boasberg convicts of criminal contempt?
    John E. Jones III, The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The film topped Entertainment Weekly's 2022 list of Tom Cruise-starring projects ranked by grade, and came in just behind Born on the Fourth of July as containing Cruise's all-time best screen performance.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 19 May 2025
  • Instead, eating and preparing them may simply entail extra care and adherence to best food safety practices.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Her jumpsuit is a couture twist on the cartoonish striped getup of a jailbird.
    Jemal Polson, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
  • Becomes a jailbird at a high-security zoo after he’s caught, with the newest Wallace & Gromit film, Vengeance Most Fowl, finding Feathers, all these years later, hell-bent on getting even with the duo who locked him up.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The office in Jackson, Ky., which was responsible for the area around London, had a March vacancy rate of 25%; the Louisville weather service staff was down 29%; and the St. Louis office was down 16%, according to calculations by weather service employees obtained by the Associated Press.
    Dylan Lovan, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
  • As the name suggests, the opioid signalling pathway in the brain is responsible for how opioids, like certain painkillers, act on the brain.
    Eva Amsen, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • The nets are closing in on them, the circle is getting tighter, and even their own places of worship are not safe.
    Scott Santarosa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025
  • Despite these obstacles, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby tells CNN flying is still safe at Newark — and nationwide — because airlines are scaling back the amount of flights departing day by day.
    Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 13 May 2025

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“Trusty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trusty. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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