confess
Example Sentences
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“I want to collect one thousand pounds,” I confess.
From Literature
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The friends confessed to "staying up past bedtime" to watch their favourite traitor plot her next play.
From BBC
Boone is responsible for tremendous environmental harm but remains unrepentant, even as other apparitions materialize seeking to shame him into confessing his sins.
She says she attended a hearing in which her son's accusers played a recording of him apparently confessing.
From BBC
“I didn’t have a good answer for her,” she confessed.
From Literature
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