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El-Sayed admits he can be cocky, and the result called for an immediate conciliatory tone to welcome skeptical Stevens voters.

From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026

Hopkins registered the trademark in 2018 and began contacting authors who had also used the descriptor — and the list was long, because the cocky, arrogant hero is a romance trope.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

Sam got a little cocky, tried a show-off spin, got his bird legs tangled and took a tumble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

Built by "Hitman" developers IO Interactive, "First Light" offers a new version of Bond's origin story, dropping players into the shoes of a cocky but callow young version of the spy still earning his stripes.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

She could be cocky; she could feel cute.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

“Bricks seemed to work for a while, but cockies got too clever,” one survey respondent reported.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2022

“If we’re not doing it, the cockies will blast them,” Mr. White said, using a slang term for small-scale farmers.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2021

Dahlstrom is most comfortable away from the office, out in the ute, visiting cockies, tradesmen and factory managers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why, where I live there's dozens of English public school men working as cockies and jackaroos.

From The Kangaroo Marines by R. W. Campbell

"I'll get down among the cockies along the Lachlan, or some of these rivers," said Mitchell, throwing down his swag beneath a big tree.

From While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson

If that’s not enough meta-weirdness for you, throughout the movie, Nick regularly converses with a younger, cockier version of himself, “Nicky,” who goads him to recapture his former stardom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

Despite having been one of the Endurance's cockier crew members, Ms Clague said her grandfather was a much quieter man once he came home.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2022

Also: Is there anything cockier than wearing sunglasses inside a government building?

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2019

Deng and Chen tried to build their own small version of campus life, with Deng taking the cockier, worldly lead and Chen playing his sidekick.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2017

There was something so much cockier about him this year, even the way he stood and walked, like there was more weight in his gait—he never hurried anymore.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

Hamlin without a doubt was the cockiest of the four championship drivers leading into Sunday, undoubtedly soaking in his self-inflicted chaos.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2021

Especially in recent years, as the city grapples with what often feels like an unending stream of plopped-in arrivals from New York, the country’s cockiest metropolis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2020

It’s remarkable that he can actually swing with that trophy around his waist, but this is AK, maybe the cockiest 24-year-old to ever wield a club.

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 1, 2020

In “The Right Stuff” Tom Wolfe revealed that the seven Mercury astronauts – the cockiest, most sneeringly confident fighter pilots on the planet – were terrified all the time.

From Forbes ● Oct. 22, 2014

He cocked up his head, and he cocked up his wings, and he cocked up his tail, and, in short, he looked the cockiest little man of all little men.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 by Charles Herbert Sylvester