confidences

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One was her mixed-race dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckly, who betrayed Mary’s confidences in an 1868 memoir.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

She often appears in videos wearing big earrings, blond hair brushed to the side and falling long, inviting her followers into the confidences of a politically astute beautician.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2024

It’s a funky march that revels in cosmic imagery, cross-rhythms and multifarious vocals: singing, chanting, making percussive sounds, high harmonies, husky low confidences and an occasional “la-la.”

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2023

The firm pointed to legal ethics rules that require law firms to keep the confidences of their clients and protect potentially embarrassing information.

From Reuters • Feb. 15, 2023

“You could not have the confidence of powerful men, and be trusted with their confidences, if there was any prospect that you would challenge their policies in public,” he later explained.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin