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confide

[kuhn-fahyd] / kənˈfaɪd /




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When I began to confide in married girlfriends about our problems, they unfailingly shared their own marital struggles, things they’d never mentioned when I was single.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

Always there for him to confide in, complain to and entrust with his continually evolving thoughts on Jewish life and theology, Kaplan called these ledger-size handwritten volumes his “communings of the spirit.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 24, 2026

“School should be a place where young people can feel safe and confident they can confide in a teacher.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2026

In upcoming episodes, Diane is set to confide in her close friends that she has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer before finding the strength to tell her husband Tony, played by Nick Pickard.

From BBC Mar. 2, 2026

I wanted to be more than that—I wanted him to trust me and confide in me.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

In Naiguata, a small coastal town famous for its traditional "dancing devils" festival, Cesar Rendon, 49, a former inmate who lived in the town's halfway house, confides that he "unburdened himself" with Apostol.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

She confides her joy in working there and also tells John that he was abandoned as a baby on the steps of the store.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2026

Like Iago, Richard confides his schemes to the audience before enacting them.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 26, 2026

"A year ago, I was struggling," she confides.

From BBC Oct. 24, 2025

But Theo leaves to go back to work before Vincent, and at New Years Vincent confides in his parents that he might quit his job.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

But alone in the living room, Nasir, 47, confided that his younger daughter "is depressed and does not always have strong morale to continue learning on her own at home."

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

"I know who it was," he confided to the man he did not know was recording him.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

In the summer of 2017, Walker confided in Epstein about encounters she’d had with Gates.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 8, 2026

A struggling writer-actor-production assistant, he confided that he had looked up my name on IMDb and noticed that I was a producer.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

He was even the son of an English lord, a fact he had confided in strictest secrecy.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Anthony never married, and she considered herself to some degree Stanton’s amanuensis, confiding to an intimate that she felt that her best work had been “making the way clear” for her friend.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

That debate is now coming for the AI companies that power the chatbots to which people are confiding the most intimate details of their private thoughts and lives.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

He tried to reach out for help at Loyola, even confiding in his coach about his feelings.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 27, 2025

It was the best part of a couple of years ago, and a senior government figure was confiding in me about listening in on a call between the then prime minister and President Biden.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2024

She wondered whether she had made a terrible mistake by confiding in her cousin—Cecilia would hardly be pleased if excitable Lola started flaunting her knowledge of Robbie’s note.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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