confide

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

"She was looking for a father figure to speak to and confide in and from whom to get guidance," the tribunal said.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

She started to confide in friends about stress, or things that bothered her, which otherwise would have stayed inside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

And you confide more because you know your fellow travelers—the friend who had to struggle with professional disappointments she now understands are final, or with personal ones that cannot be changed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

They daren’t confide in each other, not knowing whom to trust; they are scared to speak out, in case their suspicions are true and their families are targeted.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

But some do remain perturbed, including another teenager in the Scottish borders, 16-year-old Ellie, who says: "I was so scared of him when I was little," Ellie confides.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

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

“I was afraid I would be late too,” he confides, glancing at his watch, “because I had to make a quick stop at Lady Gaga’s.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025

He confides in her that he is going to propose to Jo Bonger, even though “it’s true that I don’t know her well enough to be able to tell you much about her.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

While wrestling with his response to the Roebucks, Walters confided in Collins, his half brother.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

But alone in the living room, Nasir, 47, confided that his younger daughter "is depressed and does not always have strong morale to continue learning on her own at home."

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

In the summer of 2017, Walker confided in Epstein about encounters she’d had with Gates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

We have spoken to three people in whom Florence confided since 2018 about her meeting with Sullivan.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

“You know,” she confided to Adams, “my friendship for that gentleman has lived through his faults and errors—to which I have not been blind. I believe he remains our friend.”

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

You can’t get through to a victim who has stopped confiding in you.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

Davis agreed, confiding that he’d previously told the “Two People Exchanging Saliva” team “in confidence, that if we lost, I hope we lost to them.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

Anthony never married, and she considered herself to some degree Stanton’s amanuensis, confiding to an intimate that she felt that her best work had been “making the way clear” for her friend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

But I have not been in a very confiding mood.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez