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The phrase "already confess" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey that someone has confessed something prior to the current moment, but the construction is awkward.
Example: "He had already confessed to the crime before the police arrived."
Alternatives: "have already admitted" or "have previously confessed".
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Anyone who denies this, More insists, "must of necessity (as I have intimated already) confess that this Matter moves it self, though it be very incongruous so to affirm" (More 1662, II, 21, 31).
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Many of his erstwhile friends and associates have already confessed to wrongdoing.
"He said the boys had been interrogated and by 5am they had already confessed".
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Kumarappa said she had already confessed: "Without any torture, she accepts everything".
She had already confessed to the crime and been interrogated by police.
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Hamada had already confessed to organizing protests, uploading videos, and speaking to the foreign press.
"All of them admitted their crimes in 2008, so there was no need to torture them — they had already confessed".
Since I've already confessed to a fondness for the genre, this is not complaint but description.
They were convicted despite the fact that a repeat sex offender and murderer had already confessed to the crime.
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