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confess

[kuhn-fes] / kənˈfɛs /


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When the day's play finally ended, Naicker and his team went to a bar and heard Bancroft and Smith confess in their news conference.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

To Barr, the gentle animal is the one living creature to whom he feels safe to confess his secrets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Given that clemency boards often look more favorably on applicants who acknowledge their wrongdoing and express remorse, I asked if he’d been tempted to confess.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The finale, “Vote 4 Paul Baker,” builds toward a big rom-com sequence: Anton races home with Issa to confess his feelings to Paul Baker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

Well, I’ll confess to you that at this point I was not just begging with my words.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

"I'm a physics teacher and I've got a terrible sense of humour," he confesses, so he particularly likes it if the students pick up on his fondness for corny puns.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Muir confesses that this feature of the market is overlooked by many market players, partly because it’s esoteric and seemingly innocuous.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

Plainview confesses, “I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

The night before the fight he confesses to Adrian, “All I wanna do is go the distance.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

He confesses that he's used some of Theo's allowance to buy linen for Sien and the baby for when she goes to deliver.

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

"I don't take the subway anymore to the big games," he confessed to reporters, but recalled riding the train regularly while growing up -- noting he always paid his fare.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

“Not that you shouldn’t get a picture, but when I’m reduced to just the transactional, I find that much harder to bear,” she confessed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Alan Greenspan confessed his “shocked disbelief” and largely kept his standing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The A-lister, who shares his son with Gelila Bekele, whom he was in a relationship with from 2009 to 2020, further confessed that he doesn’t ever plan on getting married.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

“For most of the project, I think I was along for the ride, helping Fred,” I confessed.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Angelina Jolie has sold her enormous Los Angeles pad for $24.75 million—months after putting the opulent property on the market and confessing she wants to leave the U.S. for good.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

FBI agent Patrick Yaroch was fired and charged with interstate transfer of stolen goods after confessing to taking a suspect’s cryptocurrency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

“Everyone was applauding and smiling at me,” he says, confessing to having been extremely nervous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

By genuinely confessing on the dance floor, Madonna has made a far more moving and crucial “biopic” than any shiny studio film could afford her.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

She didn’t really think that Odenigbo’s shouting would have rattled him into confessing but she could not be entirely sure.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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