How to Use distrust in a Sentence

distrust

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  • He has a distrust of doctors.
  • And the roots of Black distrust in health care go back well before that.
    — Bill Novelli, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Rob met the confession with a mix of anger and distrust.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The seeds of distrust have been growing in America’s civic garden, and the world’s, for a long time.
    — David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
  • Or, perhaps, our distrust of the state that might be hiding things from us.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The anger and distrust were still there, too, along with uneasy questions about what might come next. .
    — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • As fear and distrust swirl around them, the group must work together to survive.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The latest survey found that distrust has grown for some other groups, too.
    — Maddie Burakoff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • And outright bans on AI tools could cement a culture of distrust.
    — WIRED, 26 Jan. 2023
  • But Heard's Dan Gallagher warns that this won't mean the end of Washington's distrust of big tech mergers.
    — WSJ, 12 July 2023
  • The distrust of the A.K.P. is so strong in Diyarbakir that the earthquake was met by what was arguably the swiftest and most organized civilian response.
    — Jenna Krajeski, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023
  • One of the biggest hurdles for her was distrust from parents in the community.
    — Anya Gruener, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Which is why this distrust of science was so shocking to me during the pandemic ...
    — Adam Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Opening up about your guilt and distrust in yourself can make the relationship even stronger.
    — Women's Health, 3 Apr. 2023
  • As a first bill moves toward passage, distrust runs deep, and protesters vow to resist.
    — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2023
  • Unions warned against trying to block the move, saying this would fuel anger over the increase in the retirement age to 64 from 62, as well as distrust in parliament.
    — Samy Adghirni, Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2023
  • Family members often respond with violence or distrust or may even kick the child out of the house.
    — Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The Knight and Gallup survey found that Democrats are more trusting of the news than Republicans, while the level of distrust among independents has spiked over the past five years.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Despite the distrust, moving forward with bivalent shots may not be a bad thing, Dr. Schaffner said.
    — Julia Landwehr, Health, 27 Jan. 2023
  • For many American participants, the experience helped pierce the distrust built up over the Cold War.
    — Jane Gottlieb, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Under Bush, who’d seen the value of trade as Texas governor, Mexican distrust eased.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Our politics is broken, marked by anger, contempt and distrust.
    — Karl Rove, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2023
  • At its prickliest, this is a film about the ways social niceties can mask deep distrust and dark pasts — which still have a way of surfacing eventually.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
  • The public holds high distrust on the issue of climate change for both political parties, the survey also shows.
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The college students who rushed en masse to a hospital in Thessaloniki to donate blood shared his feelings of rage and distrust.
    — Emma Bubola, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In that light, the book is also a kind of shadow history of Americans’ distrust in government through much of the 20th century.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • España acknowledged that the secrecy prompts questions among members of the public, even distrust of the system.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • One of the biggest drivers of distrust is the lack of representation at health care companies, Whaley said.
    — Ashley Lutz, Fortune Well, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Doing so will help you and your talent move from distrust to fearless Gen AI enthusiasts.
    — Deborah Lovich, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • With flashes of fable, his novel tells a story specific and universal: how flammable are fear and the distrust of others.
    — Michael Stillwell, Town & Country, 14 Mar. 2023
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distrust

2 of 2 verb
  • She's always distrusted their promises.
  • Many of his supporters have been primed to distrust any vote that doesn’t go his way.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Take down too much and users will begin to distrust the platform.
    — David Klepper, ajc, 19 Aug. 2022
  • By this point Wang was distrusted by many people close to Ray, sources say.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
  • My comment of distrusting TJ was way before the bridge.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2023
  • That gap was partly attributed to distrust sowed by decades of abuse.
    — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Meanwhile, the anger and distrust between the two sides reverberates for the entire sports world to see.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The white residents of Money hate them out of prejudice; the Black ones distrust them as cops.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Well, Americans have been taught to distrust the one party that can deliver the goods, the Democrats.
    — Kevin Morrow, The Week, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Lloyd over-eggs the dread, distrusting your ability to get subtext.
    — Vulture, 9 Mar. 2023
  • And yet many in this country still distrust science and scientists.
    — Kai Bird, The New Yorker, 7 July 2023
  • To my knowledge my wife has never done anything like that and has never given me a reason to distrust her.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Those who believe the shirtsleeves prophecy may be led to distrust their children and place undue restrictions on their use of the wealth.
    — Dennis Jaffe, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
  • But many Afghans distrust the Taliban and fear that their rule will be violent and oppressive.
    — Fox News, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Most clients initially distrust Roca and refuse to answer the phone or open their door when case workers come calling.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Many of them have since come to distrust the commission, which consists of three Republicans and three Democrats.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2022
  • And if one or more of these aren’t met, should one distrust the algorithm altogether?
    — Arun Shastri, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
  • If your husband has given you no other reason to distrust his faithfulness, please give him the benefit of the doubt.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Now, the centers of power in Washington are telling audiences to distrust the posture from the other side.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Players continued to voice outrage and distrust toward the league throughout the weekend.
    — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • But Grimm concluded in the memo that the guidelines do not exclude parents or encourage children to distrust them.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2022
  • How had so many people on his medical staff seemingly come to distrust science and medicine?
    — Eli Saslow, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Secrets, fears and distrust seep through Gunthrum as Flanagan shows how these issues become a part of the daily fabric of the residents’ lives.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Last but probably not least, many journalists distrust the New York Post.
    — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2023
  • If the first-order worry is that people will get duped, the second-order worry is that the fear of deepfakes will lead people to distrust everything.
    — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Schiff never quite knows whether to admire or distrust the elusive yet ubiquitous Adams.
    — Alan Taylor, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The missteps hampered the early response to the pandemic, public-health experts said, and likely contributed to distrust in the CDC.
    — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021
  • What does the basic decency of the world in which the show is set look like when people stop pretending everything’s fine and start distrusting each other?
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The Edelman survey notes that failure of leadership makes distrust the default.
    — Randy Shattuck, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The founders distrusted a system based on the popular vote, fearing many citizens would not be well-informed.
    — Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023

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