- present participle of confide.
confiding
Example Sentences
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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
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
That debate is now coming for the AI companies that power the chatbots to which people are confiding the most intimate details of their private thoughts and lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Five years later, the house hit the market again, with the homeowners confiding to Brettler that it was “a very difficult house.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2025
That the word had been written by a man confessing to an image in his mind, confiding a lonely preoccupation, disgusted her profoundly.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
