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"Mr Scott has been confessing to this crime since 12 August 1991," Assistant District Attorney Sara Dee told the court.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2018

Q. My partner’s friend keeps confessing his love to her: A few months ago, my partner told me that our mutual friend “John” has been confessing his love to her.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2018

Again and again the worldly, almost scoffing, tone of the superior to whom he has been confessing sounds like the hiss of a serpent in his ear.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 by Various

That voice has been confessing for the speaker and his brethren their common misapprehensions of the Servant, their blindness to the meaning of His sufferings and the mystery of His death.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander

She is writing to a friend of hers who has been confessing to actions which Mary might just as easily have condemned as you condemned Jessica's.

From Judy of York Hill by Bennett, Ethel Hume