confiding
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- confidingly adverb
- confidingness noun
- nonconfiding adjective
- unconfiding adjective
Etymology
Origin of confiding
Example Sentences
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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
As more emails emerge, there's a growing impression of how much Ferguson seemed to depend on Epstein, telling him he was her "pillar" and confiding "I have been so so sad".
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026
Killer scene: Adorned with gold teeth, stringy hair, face tattoos and beard, Gascón’s crime boss Manitas shocks Zoe Saldaña’s lawyer character by confiding: “I want to be a woman.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025
She wore a blazing orange sweater over a bright green shirt and her affect was by turns giddy, introspective, confiding, resolute.
From New York Times • May 26, 2024
Gradually, we started talking more, confiding in each other and expressing ourselves in ways we never had.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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