confidant
Example Sentences
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I, for one, welcome a future in which I talk to my AI assistants throughout the day, and they handle my correspondence, calendars and to-do lists, while also serving as my coach, tutor and confidant.
If he believes it would be better to throw his confidants under a bus, his past actions show he will do so eagerly.
From Salon
"You can have these fantasies about sticking it to world leaders," one confidant of the PM said, "but you still have to speak to them the next day. What do you say then?"
From BBC
The head of RedBird Capital Partners and Paramount CEO David Ellison’s close confidant has spent the week in Europe with Paramount executives, in part to lobby regulators to back its bid and reject Netflix’s deal.
Summers' interactions with his former confidant came back to haunt him last week, leading him to announce he was stepping back from public commitments and stopping teaching at Harvard.
From BBC
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