confessed
Americanadjective
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openly admitted; declared to be true.
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Christianity. having confessed one's sins for absolution.
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“Then he confessed again. Then he recanted again. He confessed again. He recanted again. Confessed again. Recanted again.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2021
Barack Obama Confessed to the Dalai Lama That meditating on some remote cliff Was looking increasingly terrif.
From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2015
Confessed one junior Democratic Senator: "I don't know how to act being with a winner."
From Time Magazine Archive
Confessed Salazar: "I don't feel any different physically, but mentally there is something wrong."
From Time Magazine Archive
Through every startled region dread Of my resistless fury spread; And Gods in each remotest sphere Confessed the universal fear.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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