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confiding

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verb

present participle of confide

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of confiding
Verb
This was caused by the participants feeling unheard and invalidated when confiding their concerns to people who engaged in toxic positivity. Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for confiding
Adjective
  • Icardi describes her former boss as kind, professional and trusting.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Cats are far less trusting than dogs and rarely fall for the pill-in-the-treat ploy.
    Joan Morris, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Finally, there’s the fact that the Blazers are handing him the gig, with Clingan playing 30 minutes in the opener against Minnesota.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Off to the hottest start in the NHL, New Jersey scored in each period and shut down the Wild’s suddenly struggling power play, winning 4-1 on Wednesday and handing Minnesota its fourth loss in the past five games.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And find a way for your agent or a trustful intermediary to tell the Heat, too.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025
  • Creating lasting, trustful relationships with clients takes patience, persistence, and a commitment to your values.
    Medhat Zaki, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • Proponents of Illinois secession are serious about leaving Illinois, but don't necessarily want to join Indiana.
    Hayleigh Colombo, IndyStar, 24 Oct. 2025
  • One week later, the inmate attacked him in the middle of the night and beat him with a padlock attached to a belt, leaving him with a gash to the head and other injuries, according to the lawsuit.
    Paul Egan, Freep.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Many have been wondering if WWE will end up giving Cargill her first world title reign in professional wrestling before the end of 2025.
    Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The pregame show addressed the sports gambling scandal, with insider Chris Hayes giving some details around seven minutes in.
    Andrew Marchand, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As the wearer walks, these nodes slide up and down, basically transferring the topography of the ground through the shoes to stimulate the foot.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2025
  • OpenAI proposes to become a public benefit corporation (PBC), transferring the nonprofit’s ownership of OpenAI’s technology to the for-profit arm, lifting the profit caps for investors, and doing away with the nonprofit’s oversight.
    Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Besides work-life balance and trying to do too much all at once, the next biggest challenge for first-time coaches is delegating authority.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
  • However, Congress has passed legislation delegating that power to the president over time.
    SJ Guest Editorial, Sourcing Journal, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • McVay’s offense inspired imitators as his assistant coaches spread across the NFL over the next few seasons, and while new defensive schemes famously evolved to counter it, 11 personnel seemed a permanent fixture of a league hell-bent on passing.
    Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Missourians love their Katy Trail State Park, the former railroad track turned pancake-flat trail stretches some 240 miles across the state, skirting the river, winding through farmlands, and passing through other small towns.
    Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Confiding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confiding. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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