lacking confidence

The 30-year-old artist from Idaho found herself lacking confidence and routinely deferring to her older partner, a dynamic she attributed in part to a disparity in life experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025

Salah seems to be lacking confidence when it comes to taking on defenders.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025

It was difficult to see Spence that way: depleted, beaten, lacking confidence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

Investors seem to be lacking confidence that the central bank can walk the line of reining in inflation without triggering a recession.

From Washington Post ● May 9, 2022

The opinions of the rest were as vacillating as their courage, many of them lacking confidence in the governor.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Various