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Recent Examples of confidently
Beyond this, Beyoncé is a Black woman who empowers other Black women to sit confidently on their own thrones.
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Larry Stansbury, Essence, 4 Sep. 2025
That trust allowed my team to move confidently in my absence, making decisions and supporting each other.
—Kari Cobham, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
Teens who can speak confidently and persuasively have advantages in every aspect of their future careers.
—Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Villa started confidently until Bizot brought down Daichi Kamada and Palace were awarded a penalty.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
One health-care AI model confidently hallucinated a nonexistent body part.
—Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
Meditative and confidently strange, this one suggests a psychic journey’s unfolding behind the scenes.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
He was also filmed confidently striding up to a group of several other dogs, engaging all of them in a game of chase in the water.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Find Mining aims to enable more users to easily and confidently participate in digital asset mining and embark on a path to stable passive income through a combination of technological innovation and strict regulation.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2025
Larry Stansbury, Essence, 4 Sep. 2025
That trust allowed my team to move confidently in my absence, making decisions and supporting each other.
—Kari Cobham, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
Teens who can speak confidently and persuasively have advantages in every aspect of their future careers.
—Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Villa started confidently until Bizot brought down Daichi Kamada and Palace were awarded a penalty.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
One health-care AI model confidently hallucinated a nonexistent body part.
—Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
Meditative and confidently strange, this one suggests a psychic journey’s unfolding behind the scenes.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
He was also filmed confidently striding up to a group of several other dogs, engaging all of them in a game of chase in the water.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Find Mining aims to enable more users to easily and confidently participate in digital asset mining and embark on a path to stable passive income through a combination of technological innovation and strict regulation.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for confidently
Adverb
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Organizations actively developing ProSocial AI become magnets for engineers, data scientists, and ethicists who want meaningful work that contributes positively to society.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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But Phillies fans would be positively irate if their team let Schwarber slip through the cracks.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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But Wolfe’s good point, in his writing on architecture, was that there was an immense reservoir of idiomatic American style that deserved to be taken as seriously—or, more to the point, as joyfully—as any European art-school dogma.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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Daniel Megias/Getty Images From just lying down and looking bored, the scene shifts to Waffles joyfully running and playing in a yard with the new puppy.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Now Ronny looked up at her expectantly.—
Bryan Washington,
New Yorker,
7 Sep. 2025
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In the clip, Blakely can be seen looking off camera expectantly, evidently aware something is happening.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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But Pierce Brosnan is the scene-stealer here, joyously leaping into the character of Ron, a former union activist known as Red Ron in his day, still ready to start a protest when needed.—
Caryn James,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Sports legends, including Michael Jordan, Lawrence Taylor, and Randy Moss, attended the game, cheering exuberantly after UNC took a 7-0 lead with an opening drive touchdown.—
Matthew Couden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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Diamandis welcomed each innovator to the stage with a hug and jumped exuberantly to the music, urging his audience to do likewise.—
Tad Friend,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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That, in turn, jars an earlier memory of happier days in the same car, giddily documenting on camcorder their initial move to New Orleans.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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The kiss became a key piece of a prosecutorial propaganda campaign, giddily inflamed by the tabloid media, that framed Knox as a perverse, cold-blooded killer.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
20 Aug. 2025
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As his profile began to grow on Grand Cayman, Santor became known for securing the best tables at restaurants and riding a scooter through island traffic, blithely ignoring suggestions to put on a helmet.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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She is described, variously, as quirky, impassive, naive, vulgar, blithely optimistic.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Confidently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confidently. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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