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In a scene where people are confessing things that make them sad, Palmer bursts out: "Why did 'N Sync have to break up?"

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2011

But on Capitol Hill these days, lawmakers are confessing bafflement in the face of the massive and growing farm-subsidy scandal.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you see no obstacles, you are confessing to blindness.

From The University of Hard Knocks by Parlette, Ralph

God sees every sin we commit, and in His presence we present ourselves to the priest in the confessional, and declare that we are confessing all.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.

If you let these irritating outside influences get the better of you, you are confessing your inferiority to them, by permitting them to dominate you.

From The Majesty of Calmness; individual problems and posibilities by Jordan, William George