confidante
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One scene in particular, in which Coley explores Sonya’s room, touching everything, hums with the strange excitement of being a specially invited new confidante.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
McGovern was also described as a "senior front line operative" and a "confidante" of those in the upper echelons of the organisation.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
Now an activist in exile, she is a confidante of Fraser Pardington, the Mandarin-speaking president of the United States.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Earlier this week, Kim Yo Jong, a powerful confidante of her brother Kim Jong Un, said the joint drills "may cause unimaginably terrible consequences".
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026
Being his confidante, she felt essential to him, in some ways closer to him than ever.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
The mayor would later tell confidantes that he didn’t foresee the blowback, and he would do it differently if he could.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Few people then, not even Carpenter’s closest confidantes, knew how to talk about what was actually an eating disorder, much less manage it.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
He was found to have been staying near his hometown of Castelvetrano in western Sicily, his fugitive lifestyle facilitated by his sister and close confidantes.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
If so, he's considered one of his grandfather's most trusted confidantes, having been his personal bodyguard, and more business-orientated than ideological, with no high-level diplomatic experience.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
They were the best confidantes for a lonely little girl.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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