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self-assurance

[self-uh-shoor-uhns, self-] / ˈsɛlf əˈʃʊər əns, ˌsɛlf- /
NOUN
confidence
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Among the café-table clichés that experts and geopoliticians string together with astonishing self-assurance, one is particularly striking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

That said, you have self-assurance and agency and, at 55, it’s good to flex those muscles.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 27, 2025

Even so, that comment alone would suggest some degree of self-assurance.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025

Total self-assurance is exactly how Sonny, like Pitt, gets away with his pretension.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2025

But he carried himself with the self-assurance of a successful gentleman who was proud of his wife, proud of his family, and proud of his business accomplishments.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey