confidant
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She had been featured in a 2011 magazine article about her TerraPower work, including a photo shoot with Gates and TerraPower Vice Chair Nathan Myhrvold, a longtime Gates confidant.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
"It was really the wish of the Holy Father to be able to do something for the children of Gaza," a close confidant of the late pontiff, Cardinal Anders Arborelius of Sweden, tells me.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
Staley, a close confidant of Epstein, showed an active interest in the idea, according to the emails.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026
One Bass confidant told a source that ‘the mayor didn’t tell the truth when she said she had nothing to do with changing the report.’
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2026
“If I describe it enough it sounds compelling, and people think they can do it for themselves,” he wrote to an e-mail confidant.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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