confidant
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Rocha Moya, 77, is a longtime stalwart of Mexico’s ruling Morena party and confidant of ex-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leftist who founded Morena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Prince has been a confidant and ally of the president and his advisers, the Journal has reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The ex-communist Levison became King’s closest white confidant and adviser.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
North Carolina has placed football general manager Michael Lombardi — a longtime confidant of coach Bill Belichick — on paid administrative leave, the university said Monday in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
More than a decade later, she told a confidant that the raid “was what one might have expected of Nazi Germany, but not of the United States.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Raducanu has shown she plays better when surrounded by long-time confidants who she trusts implicitly.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Valor Equity Partners is the VC firm run by Antonio Gracias, a SpaceX director and one of Musk’s confidants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
The government has dismantled much of the Chapitos organization, particularly Iván Archivaldo’s network of close confidants and lieutenants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
But McCarthy’s closest confidants are men who’ve never set foot on a film set, men never trailed by paparazzi, and it’s those relationships to which he tends in “Who Needs Friends.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
People who never had known what it was to enter the gate of the Mayor’s yard unless it were to do some menial job now paraded in and out as his confidants.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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