confession
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Our stories of justice, from murder mysteries to tales of thwarted romance, invariably climax not with revelation but with confession.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
But the FBI agents who took Kao’s confession — two experienced anti-corruption investigators — could see that much of it lined up with a trove of records they had seized from Navatek.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
Abu Agila Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, 74, has claimed he was forced by three masked men into making a false confession while in custody in Libya.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Police returned to the place after securing a confession.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Although I want absolution dearly, I am unable to face confession.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
The Instagram account describes itself as a place for "the best confessions, memes and banter in Cardiff" and has more than 14,000 followers.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
His confessions opened up an entirely new phase of the investigation.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
In recent years, a stream of DNA exonerations has shown how widespread false confessions really are.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Compounding the novel’s Gothic gloom is the sense that these confessions do not provide their speakers any absolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
He was rolling down a mighty corridor, a kilometer wide, full of glorious, golden light, roaring with laughter and shouting out confessions at the top of his voice.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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