confide
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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
“School should be a place where young people can feel safe and confident they can confide in a teacher.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
In upcoming episodes, Diane is set to confide in her close friends that she has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer before finding the strength to tell her husband Tony, played by Nick Pickard.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 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
We talked about how neither of us really trusts our parents, and how his parents love each other a great deal and wish he’d confide in them, but that he doesn’t want to.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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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
In September, she apparently confides to Stern: "Just spoke to Jeffrey. I told him we are working on everything. Wow it is so so demoralising. I am about to freak with exhaustion."
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
"A year ago, I was struggling," she confides.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025
“I’m glad you’re here, Vir- ginia,” she confides.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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“We were just walking through,” 21-year-old Leo Schwartz later confided to Sorenson, who nodded his head with understanding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Despite being incredibly upset, Emma did not report the doctor to police and instead confided in her husband.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
A struggling writer-actor-production assistant, he confided that he had looked up my name on Internet Movie Database and noticed that I was a producer.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 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
They lingered in front of Willie’s grave, and Elisha confided that his little brother “had suffered much in the delirium of his last illness.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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After confiding in a padre - a military chaplain - the 56-year-old says she was reported to bosses and admitted to hospital, where she was held in isolation.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Ms. Applegate has a smoky, confiding voice that swings along but shifts register when the material warrants it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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
Killer scene: Adorned with gold teeth, stringy hair, face tattoos and beard, Gascón’s crime boss Manitas shocks Zoe Saldaña’s lawyer character by confiding: “I want to be a woman.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
“Do you know what Cordelia says she wants to be when she grows up?” she says, in her husky, mock-serious, confiding voice.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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