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confessional

[kuhn-fesh-uh-nl] / kənˈfɛʃ ə nl /
NOUN
confession booth
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The 83-year-old confessional lyricist said in a statement that she had "been learning how to live with Parkinson's disease" and that she had also been treated for skin cancer.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

Regardless, her first two full-length releases squarely fit within contemporary trends in confessional pop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Notably, the seventh song on the album, “Everything,” tips the record into a more appropriately confessional place, a perspective one couldn’t get with the short film alone.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Through the process of writing the script, Madonna was bitten by the memoir bug, but she channeled that confessional energy into her forthcoming album, “Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II,” which drops July 3.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

There were the bimonthly “Heart-to-Hearts,” confessional meetings run by the school chaplain, which invariably ended in paroxysms of hugging and weeping.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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