How To Use Confidant In A Sentence
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To deepen his predicament, because he is single, his advisers and confidants are generally undomesticated guys just like him.
Where Have The Good Men Gone?
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But Robin Turner, the Vines's A&R man and long-term confidant at their UK label Heavenly, always thought his habit was a hindrance, not a help.
The Trouble With Spikol
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The reflections and soliloquies of Artamène recur; but a not unimportant, although subordinate, new character appears -- not as the first example, but as the foremost representative, in the novel, of the great figure of the "confidante" -- in Martésie, Mandane's chief maid of honour.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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My colleagues were my best friends, family, peers, confidantes and mentors.
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Adair, who loves Virgilia, resigns himself to be her confidant and Fergus' mentor.
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In the wake of her latest heartbreak, Jennifer Aniston has again sought solace in her long-term confidant and former Friends costar Courteney Cox.
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Obviously, the best confidantes are people with whom a high degree of intimacy already exists.
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All young men need an older woman as confidante and adviser.
The Tribes Triumphant
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It is no compliment to be the stupidly idolised master of a dog whose instinct it is to idolise, but it is a very distinct tribute to be chosen as the friend and confidant of a philosophic cat who is wholly his own master and could easily choose another companion if he found such a one more agreeable and interesting.
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There's a chance they'd both enjoy unloading if you proved a trusted confidante.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, the harsh fact is that with his present set of confidants and advisers, he does not need enemies!
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The most knowing in these matters are supposed to be Pierre, the host of the Grand Café, right under the rooms of the Jockey Club, and the rotund Henry, keeper of the Restaurant Bignon, Avenue de l'Opéra, the confidant of certain turfmen, who may favor him with invaluable hints if their _salmis_ of woodcocks should have been a success or their
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
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But over the years Laura has always been one of Diana's closest confidantes.
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For over a decade, Mubarak has not served alongside a vice president, but today, he appointed Omar Suleiman, the country's intelligence chief and a long term confidant of the president, to the post.
ABC News: Top Stories
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If Moniz, Jack's best friend and confidant, was begging and pleading with his best friend to slow down and stop driving like a mindless animal.
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What astonishes the contemporary reader is that a genuine, independent intellectual like Galbraith was permitted to serve in government, let alone become the confidant of presidents.
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Emotionally, a gay man can be a woman's best friend, her confidant, her support, her adviser.
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It's this return of former colonial powers to the Arab world to reclaim oil concessions in Libya, following the occupation of Iraq, that has led Gamal Abdel Nasser's former confidant Mohamed Heikal to talk recently of the threat of an effective new "Sykes-Picot agreement" – the carve-up between Britain and France after the first world war – and a redivision of spoils in the region.
Egypt has halted the drive to derail the Arab revolution | Seumas Milne
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I also, though much against my inclination, shall decamp; for he might perhaps consider me as an adviser, caballer, confidante, or at least a troublesome spectator.
Tales and Novels — Volume 08
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Freemantle and the newly ordained Richard Grey remained Crewe's closest confidants through the last years of his life.
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He was my closest friend and confidante.
The Sun
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We needed a confidant for him and we auditioned dozens of actors.
The Other Side of Me
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When your horse learns an even pace, he will feel comfortable and confidant when he uses it in a ride and it will become automatic for him and easy for you, too.
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We needed a confidant for him and we auditioned dozens of actors.
The Other Side of Me
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I lost my best friend, lover and confidante, and it has been an extremely lonely time.
The Sun
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To teach is to be a friend, confidant, leader, supporter, and motivator.
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He looks what he claims to be, her friend, confidant and protector, a smiling, slightly proprietorial figure.
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They had a special role in relation to stock-rearing and stock health and as the confidante and sounding board for the farmers' problems.
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He wavered and doubted, and to his confidants, with whom he could bluster and talk big, he expressed in no measured terms his detestation of Liberal principles, and especially of Catholic Emancipation.
The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3)
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He's one of my closest confidants - I phone him and we talk about our relationship troubles.
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Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, said that with a close Putin confidante now starting a five year term as Moscow's mayor, it is clear where power really lies in Russia today.
Putin's Chief of Staff Becomes Mayor of Moscow
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My cabman has been the confidant of an amount of humor and apt quotations and clever sayings which you will never know, and which you will never guess.
Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O
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Bwowff!" soothes her thickset confidante, jowls swinging approvingly at her choice of metaphor.
With The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, US TV has given us women who are more than just Mistresses
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You need to recognize your complicity in becoming the caretaker, the go-to person, the confidante, and the chief cook and bottle-washer in the first place.
SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life
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They had known him as their trusted confidant, a shoulder to cry on, and a companion who would share their most intense moments of happiness.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a sketch, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank focuses on a top McCain confidant, Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief who is now one of the Republican’s most visible surrogates.
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He presents his advisors and confidantes as ignorant dupes at best and scoundrels at worst.
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George's first-person text is punctuated by the wit and wisdom of his friend and confidant Derek Taylor, whose astute observations put the musings of the ex-Beatle into context.
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Charlotte behaves like a humorsome child, and should have been used like one, and*** well whipped in the presence of her friendly confidante Harriet.
Lady Mary Wortley Montague
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He left no known diary, he had no known confidantes, other than his wife Mira Markovic.
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He is also an adviser and confidant of the Aga Khan.
Times, Sunday Times
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Globke was the closest confidant and adviser of Adenauer, who could stand in for the Chancellor.
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I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school.
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They commiserate and validate each others' feelings and become confidantes.
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My confidante was my former business partner Adam.
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This fall has been difficult for the two of them, room-mates since their freshman year, best friends and confidantes.
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Split into groups to ward off wild animals, bad weather and harmful spirits, the shamans were confidant of their success, though three scouts reportedly were found crying until they fainted.
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Pitt therefore based his hopes on the statesmanlike policy of the Czar, who in that month despatched to London one of his confidants, a clever but viewy young man, of frank and engaging manners, Count Novossiltzoff.
William Pitt and the Great War
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It might be the effect of temporarily working somewhere different and missing various friends and confidants.
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He's a bit of a confidant and consiglieri to the likes of Desmond.
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She has always been there for him in many roles - friend, confidante, soulmate and lover.
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So she is your best friend, your closest confidante, your mirror image, or even the bane of your existence.
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Recently released documents from a different case showed that two of Epstein's closest confidantes – his PA Sarah Ellen and an on-off girlfriend, Nadia Marcinkova – were repeatedly questioned by Kuvin about whether the prince had been involved in sexual acts with any of Epstein's entourage of young women.
Prince Andrew's link to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein taints royalty in US
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Mr. Lugo-Galicia reports that he was "irate," and launched recriminations against his closest confidants saying, "they lied to me, they deceived me.
Showdown at Fort Tiuna
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A teacher is a student's confidant, motivator and love-hate object.
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She had also had the time to discuss the matter with her husband, their legal representatives and a few close friends and confidantes.
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These four are the princess's closest friends and confidants as well as her court.
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I was hardly aware of opening my locker and being surrounded by my pack of close confidants.
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He seemed in a swither as to whether I was a fit confidant or not in such a matter, but at last would appear to decide in my favour.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Known as a confidant of Jobs, the soft-spoken Ive has led Apple's design team since 1996 and was among the few who survived brutal staff cuts Jobs made when he returned to Apple in late 1997.
Reuters: Press Release
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Isabelle was the only female confidante she'd ever had, and entrusting a secret to Isabelle was rather like toting water in a sieve.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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There was a catchphrase Amin used with his closest confidants, which meant that the person should first be tortured — not for information, but as punishment or for exercise — and then murdered.
Kahawa
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But, unless he has some freakishly clever tricks up his sleeve, I think it would strain plausibility if a high-profile politician was able to put tens or hundreds of hours into a secret life without at least one or two close confidantes finding out.
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She had served the Queen, as an attendant, a playmate, and a confidante literally since infancy, but did not resent it.
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In a way, I had been in love with him since the moment I saw him on the dock, walking towards us with that confidant strut.
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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, dean of the College of Cardinals and close confidant to the pope, was the main celebrant and delivered the homily in praise of John Paul.
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She is a confidante, a counsellor and a comedienne.
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But ten minutes later, I was his chief confidant and presumed best buddy.
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If my family or any of the beardy artisans they hung out with had found my diaries, overheard the nightly phone conversations with confidantes, or worse still, mind-read my fantasies – a cartoonish swirl of novice sex scenes, stalking plans and romantic heroine delusions – I have no doubt they would have been shocked out of their idealism.
Joanna Briscoe: Mr A, my unattainable love god
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Nobody knows the man better than NJ, who is his closest confidant.
The Sun
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Baradar may have had better credentials as Mullah Omar’s brother-in-law and longtime confidant, but he was a consensus seeker, in the mold of a traditional tribal chieftain.
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“That residents living in dense census tracts have fewer confidants.”
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This was not a question of dramatic emotional conversions, but simply a chance to share with a confidante and feel forgiven.
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After the death of Ludovico's father, Giancarlo had become his closest confidant.
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There are no sure bets in politics, and money alone is not the key barometer to electability, just ask Democratic moneybags, and key Clinton Confidant Terry McAuliffe who ran and lost the democratic primary in Virginia for Governor.
Interview with Mark Foley
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A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public.
Amiel's Journal
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He has since become a close friend and confidant.
Christianity Today
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Share a professional concern with a close confidante or intimate Saturday, but come Sunday you must get on your soapbox.
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Of the latter, he says: ‘John didn't have any close friends or confidants.’
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Being a trusted confidante to your friend is the most valuable thing you can be right now.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alvin met the genial master poet Langston Hughes, who became a lifelong friend and confidant.
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You are her closest friend and confidante.
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But "he has latterly intimated to one or two of his confidants that he would like his present role to evolve so that once he inherits the crown, his knowledge and experience, his contacts and his unique ability to 'convene' others in the national interest could be put to good use rather than go to waste".
Peter Black AM
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But now, with quite a bit of fanfare, Rogers is planning to call the confidant of Speaker Nancy Pelosi out on the mat, or at least the House floor.
CNN Transcript May 18, 2007
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The chief North Korean negotiator of closer relations between North and South, once a confidant of Mr Kim, is rumoured to have been sent to a labour camp and even shot, possibly for taking bribes.
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The last remarkable corruption is in the introduction of a curious piece of stage-machinery, ycleped a confidant, who, loving her mistress more than herself, like a good servant, accompanies her through wind and rain, and every other stage-horror, in a dark night, on a wild-goose chase, without any adequate or apparent object.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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Baradar may have had better credentials as Mullah Omar’s brother-in-law and longtime confidant, but he was a consensus seeker, in the mold of a traditional tribal chieftain.
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She became my best friend and confidante and penfriend.
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We cannot install any of our circle among the young lady's confidantes; Salisbury suspects them all as recusants, and advises Lord Harington whom to keep and whom to expel.
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Willie's band, a relatively spare ensemble with a light rhythm section, included family members Bobbie and Luke, long time confidant Paul English on snare drum, harmonicist Mickey
Examiner California Headlines
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Globke was the closest confidant and adviser of Adenauer, who could stand in for the Chancellor.
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Historically, Navy chaplains have been counsellors, confidantes and carers for sailors with Christian and non-Christian backgrounds.
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We needed a confidant for him and we auditioned dozens of actors.
The Other Side of Me
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He has been one of Diana's closest confidants during the difficult years of her rocky marriage.
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The villagers entered the hut then, and it became obvious to John that these were not ordinary Santa's helpers, but his closest confidantes and helpmates.
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The mafioso is seduced – more irony – by his opponent's embodiment of British "fair play" and Makepiece becomes a naive confidante and go-between in the proposed trade-off with MI6.
Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré
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After Pancratius has conquered all that opposed him -- has triumphantly gloated over his Fourieristic schemes for the _material_ well-being of the race whom he has robbed of all higher faith -- he grows agitated at the very name of God when it falls from the lips of his confidant,
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Jackson, his chief of staff and confidante, is revered as someone who can deliver him news that he won't hear from anyone else.
The rise, fall and rise of John Boehner
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As the president's closest gay confidant, he anticipates playing a peacemaking role on the council.
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He was just two when we got together, so it wasn't easy, but now she is a friend and a confidante for him, someone who's not a parent.
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She accompanies the bride to her new home and functions as a companion, adviser and confidante.
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He was their adviser, confidant and father confessor.
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The most knowing in these matters are supposed to be Pierre, the host of the Grand Café, right under the rooms of the Jockey Club, and the rotund Henry, keeper of the Restaurant Bignon, Avenue de l'Opéra, the confidant of certain turfmen, who may favor him with invaluable hints if their _salmis_ of woodcocks should have been a success or their
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
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His extreme youth, too, prepossessed the councillors in his favour, the rather that no one could easily believe that the sagacious Louis would have chosen so very young a person to become the confidant of political intrigues; and thus the King enjoyed, in this, as in other cases, considerable advantage from his singular choice of agents, both as to age and rank, where such election seemed least likely to be made.
Quentin Durward
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He was still the quiet type, but in a confidant way, and you could sense the depth of feeling between them.
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Joe also became a friend of presidential confidant Harry Hopkins, a former social worker and son of an Iowa harness maker.
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She was not a common harlot and camp follower but a woman known to the Athenians as a hetaira—a beautiful, educated, and charming female who shared the bed of her sponsor but also served as his confidante and advisor.
Alexander the Great
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He was a confidant to captains of industry and a warm and intelligent man who built an impressive fan club across all spheres of life.
Times, Sunday Times
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My colleagues were my best friends, family, peers, confidantes and mentors.
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Joe also became a friend of presidential confidant Harry Hopkins, a former social worker and son of an Iowa harness maker.
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It was still Sam, his confidant, his confessor, his penitent, his port in the storm and most beloved brother.
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I consider her to be my closest friend and confidante and one of the most incredible women I know.
Times, Sunday Times
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His great friend and confidant, the painter and diarist Joseph Farington, bluntly called him "a male coquet".
Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review
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Isabelle was the only female confidante she'd ever had, and entrusting a secret to Isabelle was rather like toting water in a sieve.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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And they often do not have an emotional confidant to share problems with.
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She has never really liked the name Catherine, although her mother insisted she should be called that when she went to Marlborough," a confidant reveals.
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He appointed three close confidants to handle the state apparatus, the cabinet and the presidential household.
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Kenneth M. Duberstein, the former Reagan chief of staff and McCain confidante who made an 11th-hour endorsement of Mr. Obama.
Life of the Party: They’re Back! - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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At this present their go-between and confidante is a slave-girl who hath till now kept their counsel, but I fear lest haply anxiety get the better of her and she discover their secret to some one and the matter, being bruited abroad, might bring me to great grief and prove the cause of my ruin; for I have no excuse to offer my accusers.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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So the Evangelical pastors often served as counselors, spiritual guides and confidantes.
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I have a few American friends in the UK - but, again, most are acquaintances rather than my closest confidants.
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Nobody knows who we really are, not even our closest confidants or companions.
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I think this president has long looked to his key confidants, his closest friends, to key jobs.
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His closest advisor and confidant is his wife and thereby FAIR GAME! tired of the election
Obama to GOP: 'Lay off my wife'
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Disclosure of your secret feelings to a confidante can go a long way in disarming their power.
Christianity Today
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Gareth Morgan, his deputy and confidante, waited for him in the large office with windows overlooking the City.
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There's the drunken reprobate attorney and confidant, Harry Rex.
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He became one of the few trusted confidantes of Bobby Fischer, who in turn made Torre his official second for his 1992 return match with Boris Spassky.
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Playmate, friend and confidant, his alien chum is a compensation for the lonely hurt of an absent father and a shrill mother failing to cope with life as a single parent.
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Early-music veterans Paul Agnew (a soothing Dieu du Sommeil) and Bernard Deletré (a funny, bibulous River Sangar) made vivid contributions, as did Nicolas Rivenq as Célénus; Marc Mauillon and Sophie Daneman as Sangaride's dueting confidants, who naughtily urge her to choose love over duty; and the incisive Ingrid Perruche as Mélisse, Cybèle's disapproving confidante, who thinks the goddess is slumming by falling in love with a mortal.
The Sad Tale It Tells Is Myth; Its Joys, Real
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But that was to name confidante James Baker Secretary of State just days after the election.
CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2008
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Find a confidante to whom you can confess the idea - or perhaps write about it.
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In the event Kim Jong-il dies suddenly, his son, by then identified as figurehead leader, would be surrounded by close family confidantes who have been appointed to senior positions in the Workers 'Party and military in recent months.
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My close friend and confidante was my cousin Kitty, the closest to me in age and the only other girl.
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Trevor removed fiscal authority from Mulla Shakur who served as Shuja's main confidante while pensioning in Ludiana.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
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Only Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Austan Goolsbee, a University of Chicago economist and longtime Obama confidant, is a nonlawyer with no Clinton connections.
Obama Turns to Old Clinton Hands
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A lump formed in Lexus' throat, as he watched his oldest, and most familiar confidante, and friend, slip away.
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Within a year he rose from the bottom of Russian society to the top - he became a friend and confidante to the royal family.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stephens' comments speak to another critical issue regarding confidantes.
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She's now their collective daughter, or "vivandiere" - a woman who hangs out with a regiment serving as their mascot but also as a nurse, confidante and cook.
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