Confessions

1. The title of two well-known autobiographies: that of Augustine from the fourth century, describing his early years and his conversion to Christianity, and that of the eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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While Mr Sullivan later retracted his confessions, the police and prosecution also relied on bite mark evidence, a now widely discredited field of forensic science.

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Interrogation chairs - also known as torture chairs or iron chairs - are devices that were used to torture people, often in order to extract confessions.

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Debray, who moved to Abu Dhabi and spent two years interviewing the king in French to compile the memoir, called it "quite explicit" in its confessions.

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And some money managers will write entertaining pieces featuring predictions for 2026 along with confessions about how their 2025 predictions turned out.

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We get glimpses of Stiller’s own prolific career — in comedy, mostly, as it turned out — as well as confessions of his own failings as a family man.

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• autobiography 
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• memory 
• narrative 
• note 
• recollection 
• reminiscence 
• thesis 
• treatise