confide
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When Kenneth first appears to deliver his opening monologue, he enters through the audience, as though one of us were walking onto the stage to confide our story.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
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
Harry Potter knows that he can confide in me with complete confidence,’ I told them.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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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
But Felix confides that while many students still keep phones in their pockets - so long as teachers do not see - he believes keeping the screens out of sight has made them more present.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
Like Iago, Richard confides his schemes to the audience before enacting them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
“My parents have better jobs now, but when I first got into music, we had no money for lessons,” he confides.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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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
Afterward, the claim says, she confided in a friend, a retired firefighter, who reported the incident to law enforcement.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 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
He was the first boyfriend in whom I confided about my family—really confided, the truth and not just amusing anecdotes.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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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
One reporter at the briefing with me made me feel very old by confiding that YouTube - included in the ban - had been an essential resource for them at school.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 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
“So did I!” said Tomas, and it was like talking to an old and dear friend, confiding, growing warm with the topic.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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