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Discover LudwigThe phrase "they confided" is correct and is often used in written English
You can use it when someone tells you a secret or when someone speaks to you in a trusting manner. For example: "My friends were troubled, so they confided in me and shared their worries."
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They confided in Monsignor Wren, who urged them to file a report.
These are stories they confided to Stanley and to no one else.
Apparently, officials said, they confided criminal pasts to each other and spoke of committing a robbery together.
They confided in close friends, but others might be told that Daddy was deployed or was "up north," the girls' euphemism for heaven.
I came to know several Iraqi officials well enough that they confided in me that Saddam Hussein was a maniac who had to be removed.
It was unclear how long the authorities had the men under investigation, how the two men met the informant and why they confided in him.
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And they confide in each other constantly.
Shades of the Irish Parliamentary Party in 1918, they confide.
They confide that they have been startled by how amenable Martin has proved.
But in private conversations with lawmakers and friends, they confide frustrations.
I never confided in the men who worked in the building, nor did they confide in me.
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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