confiding
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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 • Mar. 16, 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
They were comfortable confiding in one another to the point of calling the war “already a lost cause for Germany,” as Kiep put it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 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
The voice had become soft, as if the man were confiding a secret.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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