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You’ll rack up genuine dignity points if you choose to confide in one or two of your close friends that you may have overestimated your strength and suddenly find yourself feeling all crumbly and in need of someone to lean on.
CAROLYN HAX: WHEN TURNING 30 BECOMES AN EXISTENTIAL CRISISCAROLYN HAXJANUARY 1, 2021WASHINGTON POSTWe’re nowhere near there yet, a managing director has confided off-the-record.
THE YEAR THEATERS WENT DARKPATRICK FOLLIARDDECEMBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEAs we scouted, he finally let his guard down, confiding in me about his difficult past.
‘CYBERPUNK 2077’ IS A THRILL RIDE THROUGH AN UGLY, UNEXAMINED WORLDELISE FAVISDECEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON POSTCates confides that Atkinson actually let her try the simulator early on—and he later used the demo to evaluate potential board members.
THIS NEW VR SIMULATOR HELPS YOU PREPARE FOR THE MOST AWKWARD OFFICE ENCOUNTERSLEE CLIFFORDNOVEMBER 30, 2020FORTUNEThe Guardian said it was able to corroborate her account with several people in whom she had confided about the alleged incident.
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT ALLEGATIONS ARE PLAYING OUT JUST LIKE THEY DID IN 2016—EVEN AFTER THE #METOO MOVEMENTREYMASHAYEKHISEPTEMBER 22, 2020FORTUNESince she had entered the room she had also come to the conclusion that it was her duty to confide her misgivings to her mother.
SKIPPER WORSEALEXANDER LANGE KIELLANDHe is a trusty man to whom I can safely confide the charge of everything in my absence.
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS: ENVY AND INDOLENCEEUGNE SUEAs I have great sorrows, I will confide in you; dreadful disappointment, for which I will crave a smile.
BALSAMO, THE MAGICIANALEXANDER DUMASBussy had been debating within himself whether or not to confide to his friends what he knew about Diana.
CHICOT THE JESTERALEXANDRE DUMAS, PEREIt was, perhaps, the sympathy in her tone that urged the instructor to confide her trouble to a strange girl—a freshman, at that!
RUTH FIELDING AT COLLEGEALICE B. EMERSONWORDS RELATED TO CONFIDE
- accept
- accord
- acquiesce
- adopt
- affirm
- agree
- allow
- approve
- avow
- bare
- bring to light
- communicate
- concede
- concur
- confide
- confirm
- consent
- cop a plea
- credit
- declare
- disclose
- divulge
- enumerate
- expose
- go into details
- grant
- indicate
- let
- let on
- make known
- narrate
- number
- open up
- own
- own up
- permit
- proclaim
- profess
- recite
- recognize
- relate
- reveal
- spill
- subscribe to
- talk
- tell
- tolerate
- uncover
- unveil
- yield
- allocate
- allot
- apportion
- authorize
- charge
- commend
- commission
- confer trust
- confide
- consign
- convey
- delegate
- deliver
- depend upon
- deposit
- depute
- deputize
- destine
- dispatch
- employ
- empower
- engage
- give
- give to do
- grant authority
- hand over
- hold
- ice
- imprison
- institutionalize
- intrust
- invest
- leave to
- make responsible for
- move
- offer
- ordain
- promise
- put away
- put in the hands of
- relegate
- rely upon
- remove
- send
- shift
- submit
- transfer
- turn over to
- vest
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