How To Use Confidante In A Sentence
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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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You are her closest friend and confidante.
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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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Historically, Navy chaplains have been counsellors, confidantes and carers for sailors with Christian and non-Christian backgrounds.
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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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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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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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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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My colleagues were my best friends, family, peers, confidantes and mentors.
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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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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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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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Being a trusted confidante to your friend is the most valuable thing you can be right now.
Times, Sunday Times
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So the Evangelical pastors often served as counselors, spiritual guides and confidantes.
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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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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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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.
Canada.com Top Stories
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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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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.
The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines
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He left no known diary, he had no known confidantes, other than his wife Mira Markovic.
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My colleagues were my best friends, family, peers, confidantes and mentors.
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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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There's a chance they'd both enjoy unloading if you proved a trusted confidante.
Times, Sunday Times
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But over the years Laura has always been one of Diana's closest confidantes.
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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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He was my closest friend and confidante.
The Sun
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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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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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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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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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He presents his advisors and confidantes as ignorant dupes at best and scoundrels at worst.
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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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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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They commiserate and validate each others' feelings and become confidantes.
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My confidante was my former business partner Adam.
Sasha Cagen: Twitter's Aspiring Micro-Celebrities
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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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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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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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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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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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She is a confidante, a counsellor and a comedienne.
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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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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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Share a professional concern with a close confidante or intimate Saturday, but come Sunday you must get on your soapbox.