confide
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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
She started to confide in friends about stress, or things that bothered her, which otherwise would have stayed inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026
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
And before I can even think about what I’m saying, I confide it to her—all of it.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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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
Ortega is the show — not just her story but her rapport with the theatergoers, with whom she confides as if to old friends.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025
"It really shook my sense of security, I became much more anxious," Natalia confides.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025
She’s jealous that Peter confides in me and not in her, offended that Dussel doesn’t respond sufficiently to her flirtations and afraid her husband’s going to squander all the fur-coat money on tobacco.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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"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 Internet Movie Database 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
When the two of them were alone, he confided in her about his life, replaying things that had happened and explaining how he’d do them differently now.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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Anonymized data flags recurring themes in what congregants are confiding to the bot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Ms. Applegate has a smoky, confiding voice that swings along but shifts register when the material warrants it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Looking at her, I’m listening, loving the moment, thankful we are living it and confiding comfortably.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 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
But I have not been in a very confiding mood.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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