confide
Example Sentences
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It might be tempting to confide in colleagues that you’re having a hard time connecting with your manager, but that probably isn’t a good idea, Williams says.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026
That makes it hard for the holiday villain to visit sick kids in the hospital, as legions of Santas do every year, or comfort children who confide in him about bullying.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2025
And you confide more because you know your fellow travelers—the friend who had to struggle with professional disappointments she now understands are final, or with personal ones that cannot be changed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
Wright told reporters that Beam was “someone I could confide in, someone that I love dearly.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025
We talked about how neither of us really trusts our parents, and how his parents love each other a great deal and wish he’d confide in them, but that he doesn’t want to.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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"Of Mice and Men"
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