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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
confide .
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Examples
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Einstein confided that this attitude made him suspect that the Brandeis crowd was “committing sabotage” of his mission.
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Einstein confided that this attitude made him suspect that the Brandeis crowd was “committing sabotage” of his mission.
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The key, he confided, is to take at least one major fishing trip a year.
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I have in my possession a MS. work in French, confided to me by a friend, whose name alone would give it celebrity were it permitted to be mentioned.
Letters 1760
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He was challenged by the sentinels; he gave the word confided to him by Murat, and was instantly made prisoner by the soldiers.
Ferdinando Eboli 2002
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Wainwood gave her name and confided that she was a female of easy virtue with whom he had consorted in Boston before the war.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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Wainwood gave her name and confided that she was a female of easy virtue with whom he had consorted in Boston before the war.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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Wainwood gave her name and confided that she was a female of easy virtue with whom he had consorted in Boston before the war.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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Wainwood gave her name and confided that she was a female of easy virtue with whom he had consorted in Boston before the war.
Washington Richard Harwell 1968
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Mukti looked on, appalled, and noticing his expression Busner confided: 'Y'know, you can take the man out of the institution - but after half a century odd, you can't deprive him altogether of the institutional food.'
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