confided

verb

past tense of confide
as in handed
to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another the local SPCA was looking for homes for a number of exotic animals confided to its care

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Recent Examples of confided At a recent legacy nonprofit gala, a colleague confided that the event was the same thing—and the same people—year after year. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026 Then Rocha saw him a year later, and the student confided that college just wasn’t for him. — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2026 The problem with Dolan, this person confided, was that the owner fancied himself knowledgeable about basketball. — Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026 But during the March video conference, Colorado regulators confided to industry lobbyists that the tool for rooting out fraud isn’t working. — Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 15 May 2026 Aylesworth says her mother previously confided that Brian Hooker choked her. — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2026 Instead, Shawn stages his story as a panel of intimate testimonies, confided to us alone. — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026 Whitlock reveals that to keep news of Husky out of the press, Ike called war correspondents together and confided plans for Husky. — Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026 The game warden who conducted my background check confided that the state is so hard up for hunte-ed instructors that hunting experience is no longer a requirement for teaching the class. — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for confided
  1. handed
  2. entrusted
  3. gave
  4. transferred
  5. delegated
  6. recommended
  7. passed
Verb
  • Its own store gives DeMellier control over a part of the customer relationship previously handed to other retailers, while putting it physically alongside businesses charging multiples of its prices.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
  • And last week's shakeup handed day-to-day authority from DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis to his deputy, Koray Kavukcuoglu, who now has final say on major DeepMind decisions and reports to CEO Sundar Pichai.
    — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of handed
Verb
  • Yet basic information about the company entrusted with carrying out this mission is difficult to come by.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 14 Aug. 2026
  • For this, the team entrusted a Spanish biotech lab known for its active ingredients and skin-care delivery systems.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of entrusted
Verb
  • Rocket Lab was supposed to have a satellite on standby to go up and inspect True Anomaly’s spacecraft, ready to launch on short notice once military officials gave the order.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026
  • Additionally, prosecutors allege Rincker gave Alvarez a 12-gauge pump action shotgun, Jamioles said.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2026
Definition of gave
Verb
  • Spain moves kings’ remains to avoid fire Spanish authorities on Thursday night transferred the remains of three 11th century kings from a monastery in the northeastern Aragón region near an active wildfire.
    — Angela Charlton, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Rose also told the court that the EEOC has transferred the case to another administrative judge, who on Monday issued an order scheduling further proceedings.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of transferred
Verb
  • Greek authorities delegated the NTSB as the lead investigating agency in the incident.
    — Kris Van Cleave, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Authority gets delegated, combined and passed across tools in seconds.
    — Shashwat Sehgal, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of delegated
Verb
  • In light of these issues, the commission recommended against fracking in the southern Tampico-Misantla basin, but redirected fracking to basins that contain saltwater rather than freshwater aquifers.
    — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Eyes on vaccine timing, ingredients The executive order would pare down the number of vaccines that are recommended for all children from 18 to 11; the rest would be available based on a recommendation from a healthcare provider.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of recommended
Verb
  • The ban has been in place long enough that an entire cohort of girls has passed through adolescence without stepping foot in a secondary school classroom.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Castillo’s bill passed unanimously in the Assembly earlier this year and sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee in June with bipartisan support.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of passed

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