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- noun Plural form of
confidant .
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I think a trusted circle of confidants is better than a critique group, hands down. on 12 Jun 2007 at 2: 41 pm Therese Walsh
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Unpubbed Writer’s 7 Deadly Sins 2007
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And the so-called confidants cited in the story simply weren't close to him.
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A leader who has lost the respect of his subordinates and his confidants is a leader no more.
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Though in all essential matters the views and proposals of myself and of those more particularly in my confidence were always carried out (so that if in what I have written I had, for brevity's sake, said 'I arranged,' 'I designed,' it would have been essentially correct), yet this was due entirely to the fact that my confidants were the intellectual leaders of the colony, and the others voluntarily subordinated themselves to them.
Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884
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But the idea that Stalin was behind it all swirled and swirled from mouth to ear, into exiled socialist commentary, on to the pages of defectors 'and so-called confidants' tell-all memoirs, until it reached scholarly dictum through its reproduction ad nauseum by historians.
Sean's Russia Blog 2009
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A leader who has lost the respect of his subordinates and his confidants is a leader no more.
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The paper quotes two "confidants" as saying Mrs Clinton has decided to quit her Senate position for the job.
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The paper quotes two "confidants" as saying Mrs Clinton has decided to quit her Senate position for the job.
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The paper quotes two "confidants" as saying Mrs Clinton has decided to quit her Senate position for the job.
The New Nation 2008
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NY Times credits two "confidants;" says "that her camp believes they have a done deal."
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