confidant

Example Sentences

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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

The conversations evolved with the chatbot mimicking a confidant and giving emotional support, according to the Social Media Victims Law Center and the Tech Justice Law Project, which filed the suits.

From Los Angeles Times

The boy later took his father's name and became a respected attorney himself, as well as a close confidant of rising politician Marcos, who would win the presidency in 1965.

From Barron's

The goal was a book about the great mundane, the stuff of life as experienced by her talented confidants.

From Los Angeles Times

The love for Jordan, and what she believed in, is not only on display in this conversation, but also throughout the book itself — through friends, confidants and admirers of her work.

From Salon