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The phrase "confess using" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when someone is admitting to something while using a particular method or tool. For example: "John confessed to the crime using a video statement."
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It sounds like I'm walking around in wellies," Pattinson confessed, using a commonly-used term for rain boots.
"I try to sneak in an extra towel here and there during the match," the Tour's joker-in-chief confessed, "using the excuse that it's too warm and I'm sweating".
Reversing course after years of denial, the disgraced cyclist confessed use of performance-enhancing drugs during his career, according to Oprah.
Although hair samples were also tested for recreational drugs (5 out of the 10 positive samples for doping were also positive for recreational drugs), parallel psychological testing was only performed in relation to doping, hence the confessed use of recreational drugs and/or positive hair samples for such substances will not be addressed in this report.
"I have to confess, I used to use a crib sheet," he said.
In political terms, it was easier for him to confess to using the word "fuck" in consecutive sentences than to admit using just once the Latin term for someone who was not a member of the patrician elite.
This committee will use all means of torture to make the detainee confess like using electricity or hanging him upside down, pulling out their nails, and beating them on sensitive parts".
As described by Iraqi officials this program was condoned at the highest levels of the US military and utilized "all means of torture to make the detainee confess … using electricity, hanging him upside down, pulling out their nails".
I confess to using this technique with my own children decades ago.
He predicted that Mr. Armstrong would confess to using some performance-enhancing drugs but deny that he was a ringleader.
I confess to using all three — a roux, okra and filé powder — in my own gumbo, which I hope is not sacrilegious.
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