self-confident
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That had been in 1991, with the Berlin Wall knocked down, victory declared in the Cold War and liberal democracy in its most self-confident ascendancy.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
The plaintive observation, ascribed to the early Victorian British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne about the acerbically self-confident historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, remains the motto of the thoughtfully skeptical man through the ages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Where her Kayla is brash, entitled and self-confident to a fault, Jess is needy, full of second thoughts and self-doubts, even as she projects a kind of frantic cheerfulness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025
Both men—Mattis a retired Marine four-star general, Tillerson a former Exxon CEO—were supremely self-confident.
From Slate • Sep. 2, 2024
For a littlun he was self-confident, holding out his hands, cradling the conch as Ralph did, looking round at them to collect their attention before he spoke.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Vocabulary lists containing self-confident
"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 6
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Ten Most Relevant Words: War and Peace, Chapters 1&2
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Part 2 Vocabulary (Unit 5)
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