confide in
phrasal verb
confided in; confiding in; confides in
: to tell personal and private things to (someone)
She often confides in me.
He had no one to confide in.
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Neither Silvia nor Guojun showed up at the hospital on Mother’s Day, 2025, when the Pennsylvania surrogate who’d confided in Elliott was wheeled into an operating room for a C-section.
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Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
What kind of mean girl would confide in me about her husband Evan’s depression and their financial struggles and her estrangement from her father?
—Jen Wang, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2026
Two nurses can have identical clinical skill; the one with better bedside manner will be the one patients seek out, confide in, and forgive.
—Grace Brown, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
Jennie Han's friend, Isaiah Oregon, says Jennie also had concerns and confided in him about them four days before the murders.
—Natalie Morales, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
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Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
What kind of mean girl would confide in me about her husband Evan’s depression and their financial struggles and her estrangement from her father?
—Jen Wang, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2026
Two nurses can have identical clinical skill; the one with better bedside manner will be the one patients seek out, confide in, and forgive.
—Grace Brown, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
Jennie Han's friend, Isaiah Oregon, says Jennie also had concerns and confided in him about them four days before the murders.
—Natalie Morales, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for confide in
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“Confide in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/confide%20in. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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