as in admission
an open declaration of something (as a fault or the commission of an offense) about oneself
by his own self-confession, he cravenly betrayed his best friend
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Noun
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Under the bill, that process is limited to schools where the board of education has adopted an early admission policy.—
CT Mirror,
Hartford Courant,
27 Feb. 2026 -
We are told these vehicles are safer, yet the city requires human guide drivers (an admission that the artificial intelligence isn’t ready).—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Duty lawyers argued that his confession was inadmissible because of a 1987 law that stated an adult should be present during the questioning of a child.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
28 Feb. 2026
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The second volume functions as a voiceover to the first, collecting his reflections and confessions on each image.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Feb. 2026
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Anthropic, according to a story in The Atlantic, was particularly concerned about the Pentagon using its technology for this kind of analysis and that its insistence on curtailing that use case was one of the major stumbling blocks to breaking its deadlock with the DOW.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
2 Mar. 2026
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Much of the disagreement centers on Iran’s insistence on enriching uranium on its own soil.—
Abbas Al Lawati,
CNN Money,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Self-confession.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-confession. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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