confessed

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“I got up on the riser, pulled the piano bench back a little bit — and it went over the side and I fell over backwards,” Troup confessed in a later interview.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

And elsewhere in the Gulf, Kuwait said that four people arrested earlier this month as they attempted to enter the country by sea had confessed to belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

He confessed to the mistake that cost him $500 million, and gave the secrets of building billion-dollar businesses that last.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

When he and his brother guided clients who confessed that they were scared of heights, he replied: “Good, you had better be. So are we, and that is why we are still alive.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

When he left his father’s modest-sized plantation at Montpelier in Virginia to attend Princeton in 1769—Aaron Burr was a classmate—the youthful Madison had confessed to intimations of imminent mortality, somewhat morbidly predicting his early death.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis