confessions

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It said his "confessions" would be broadcast on state television Monday evening.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

In the title piece, a reformed bandit is regaled—and possibly lured back to a life of adventuring—by the confessions of a confidence woman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Wearing cowboy boots and a handlebar mustache, he had a Texas twang and a quiet, calm presence that disarmed suspects, eliciting confessions.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

Another banner year at the Celebrity Memoir Factory — a seemingly bottomless font of origin stories, trauma dumps and D-list confessions.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

I heard the distant whistle of a passing train, and I wished I could get on it and go far away, to a place without struggle meetings, without class status, without confessions.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang