confiding
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- confidingly adverb
- confidingness noun
- nonconfiding adjective
- unconfiding adjective
Etymology
Origin of confiding
Example Sentences
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Looking at her, I’m listening, loving the moment, thankful we are living it and confiding comfortably.
From Los Angeles Times
Every day of my life had ended like this: that deep steady voice, that sure and eager confiding of us all to the care of God.
From Literature
Davis agreed, confiding that he’d previously told the “Two People Exchanging Saliva” team “in confidence, that if we lost, I hope we lost to them.”
From Los Angeles Times
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.
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.
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