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Six example sentences with confide, each labelled with its topic.
Patients rarely confide the thing that actually worries them until the fourth or fifth session, long after the paperwork ends.
Psychology
The novel turns when the housekeeper confides in a stranger on the train, trusting someone she will never meet again.
Literature
Teenagers will confide symptoms to a nurse that they would never say aloud with a parent sitting in the room.
Medicine
Whatever a client chooses to confide to a lawyer stays privileged, even when the lawyer wishes it did not.
Law
The point guard confided to the coach that her knee had ached for weeks, and the staff cut her minutes.
Basketball
Founders confide their real burn rate to a trusted mentor long before they admit it to the board.
Startups
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- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
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- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
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