confidante
Example Sentences
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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
Some see their AI as a lover, but most as a friend or confidante.
From BBC
She became a close confidante of the CEO and gained his trust by giving honest critiques of some of his ideas, people familiar with the matter said.
Now he has vanished from his humble stall, and Old Hunter’s wealthy client—a woman property developer and confidante of X’s—fears he may have been “disappeared” by the government.
Ms. Wiles seems, in the piece, to have been allowed, perhaps even encouraged, to view her interlocutor as her friend, her jolly confidante.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
