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Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 3, 2026

A soldier who trained alongside him at the Army Foundation College, in Harrogate, told the BBC Khalife stood out for his cockiness, arrogance and over-confidence.

From BBC Nov. 28, 2024

The first, Hodges recalled, was a certain cockiness.

From New York Times Aug. 7, 2023

Among the upstart Skrulls, Ben-Adir conveys the cockiness of a young firebrand, peppered with the smugness of a classic thriller villain.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 20, 2023

Surely her cockiness, her optimism and energy, her pizzazz, will get her out of this.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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