lacking confidence
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Although the Lakers have yet to have all their players available, they aren’t lacking confidence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
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
Hamilton's specific problem with the Ferrari this year is that he is lacking confidence in the rear during braking and corner entry.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2025
Were Biles to go out there lacking confidence — were she to spin out of control — there could be serious consequences.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021
But it was not easy for a man like himself, uneducated and lacking confidence of character, to advance as a bolder young man might have done.
From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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