trust to
phrasal verb
trusted to; trusting to; trusts to
1
: to rely on (something one has no control over, such as luck or chance) to get what one wants or needs
All we can do at this point is hope for the best and trust to luck.
2
: to give the responsibility of doing (something) to (someone)
They trusted the care of their daughter to her grandparents while they were on vacation.
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Having coaches that are confident and competent enough to earn the trust to do it themselves seems like a must.
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Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
The defense argued that prosecutors' primary witness, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, could not be trusted to tell the truth, attempting to place doubt in the jurors' minds.
—Kyler Alvord, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
While creating a trust for estate planning purposes is a legitimate way to minimize estate taxes, the reciprocal trust doctrine espouses that taxpayers cannot use two separate, yet essentially identical, trusts to skirt those taxes.
—Darren T. Case, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Health Insurers as Pawns If a society conceives of health insurers as pawns, then efforts are applied to building systems to ensure that health insurers do what is right for patients and physicians because they cannot be trusted to do so on their own accord.
—Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Matt Barrows, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
The defense argued that prosecutors' primary witness, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, could not be trusted to tell the truth, attempting to place doubt in the jurors' minds.
—Kyler Alvord, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
While creating a trust for estate planning purposes is a legitimate way to minimize estate taxes, the reciprocal trust doctrine espouses that taxpayers cannot use two separate, yet essentially identical, trusts to skirt those taxes.
—Darren T. Case, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Health Insurers as Pawns If a society conceives of health insurers as pawns, then efforts are applied to building systems to ensure that health insurers do what is right for patients and physicians because they cannot be trusted to do so on their own accord.
—Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Trust to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trust%20to. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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