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  • noun Plural form of confidante.

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Examples

  • Something in your article that really struck me was your point that religion seems to be sneaking back into public and political life — you describe how religious iconography has been drawing crowds in Moscow, and how one of Putin's closest confidantes is a Russian Orthodox priest.

    Parsing Putin 2005

  • Something in your article that really struck me was your point that religion seems to be sneaking back into public and political life — you describe how religious iconography has been drawing crowds in Moscow, and how one of Putin's closest confidantes is a Russian Orthodox priest.

    Parsing Putin 2005

  • Something in your article that really struck me was your point that religion seems to be sneaking back into public and political life — you describe how religious iconography has been drawing crowds in Moscow, and how one of Putin's closest confidantes is a Russian Orthodox priest.

    Parsing Putin 2005

  • Linta said he did what agents do—he got on the phone, calling confidantes around the league.

    Yale Fullback Pulls an NFL End Run Scott Cacciola 2011

  • A lot of the people coming out of the closet, so-called confidantes of Michael were people who were nothing but leeches and people who have wanted to be close to sort of use Michael.

    CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2009 2009

  • Daisy Belmont was two whole years older than I, but since she was also the daughter of movie people, the two of us had been what Charmian called confidantes.

    Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime Diane Leslie 1999

  • It was the public accounts committee, based on the report of then auditor-general Sheila Fraser, that looked into the Liberal sponsorship scandal of the last decade and called confidantes of former prime ministers Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin to tell what they knew about the matter.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed GLORIA GALLOWAY 2011

  • He or she, however, will also have one of more confidantes a spouse, an adult child, a parent, etc. whose opinions will weigh heavily in any decisions that are made.

    Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.: Confronting a Terminal Diagnosis as a Family Ph.D. Joseph Nowinski 2012

  • He or she, however, will also have one of more confidantes a spouse, an adult child, a parent, etc. whose opinions will weigh heavily in any decisions that are made.

    Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.: Confronting a Terminal Diagnosis as a Family Ph.D. Joseph Nowinski 2012

  • When Jerry Brown was governor three decades ago, his staff was instructed to give special access to dozens of confidantes, political insiders and supporters whose requests, concerns and recommendations were supposed to be routed straight to Brown, administrative records show.

    Chase Davis: Jerry Brown's 1979 'Special List' Highlights Eclectic Relationships Chase Davis 2010

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