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confession

[kuhn-fesh-uhn] / kənˈfɛʃ ən /


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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

It felt like a confession, as though I had stolen something that now belonged to Fred’s family.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

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 said the confessions were not voluntary and could not be used against Mohammed at trial.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

He needed to tell them about Trepid, and he also needed to make his confessions.

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech


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