confide
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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
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
"She was looking for a father figure to speak to and confide in and from whom to get guidance," the tribunal said.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
He would confide in her, telling her everything about his day.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
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
"He is a very nice man, but he is a hard man too," one of them confides.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025
As Ruthie confides to a visiting writer: “Some people are annoying. But even the annoying ones — they’re usually annoying in interesting ways.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025
Mr. Ng confides his worries about his ancestors.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
"I know who it was," he confided to the man he did not know was recording him.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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
After all his travels, he has confided that his favourite place remains Richmond, an affluent and leafy suburb in southwest London.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
This sense of history, Freidenberg confided to her diary, “has always spoken in me with great force. Therein lay my certain faith.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
And the only other person I could have confided in or teamed up with was dead!
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Anonymized data flags recurring themes in what congregants are confiding to the bot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
As more emails emerge, there's a growing impression of how much Ferguson seemed to depend on Epstein, telling him he was her "pillar" and confiding "I have been so so sad".
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
They were comfortable confiding in one another to the point of calling the war “already a lost cause for Germany,” as Kiep put it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
It’s confiding in a friend because you think they’ll support you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
Comrade Pillai switched to Malayalam and a confiding, conspiratorial voice.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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