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Recent Examples of confidently
That Berube can’t answer that question publicly and confidently right now is part of the problem for the team.
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Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
As expected, Mahomes made all his game picks and confidently rolled with his Red Raiders to secure the afternoon victory.
—Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
Whereas Marissa definitely, confidently, wants to be a mum.
—Kate Aurthur, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
Footage from the movie was even confidently teased at CinemaCon back in 2024 but was completely absent this past spring as the movie underwent its reshoots.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
The second was a minimum viable product designed to secure private AI applications with runtime guardrails, enabling organizations to integrate AI confidently without the risk of unmanaged exposure — an approach now used across major global enterprises to safeguard their AI deployments at scale.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Expert instructors will teach you strategies to network successfully, revamp your resume and confidently transition into your dream career.
—Megan Sauer, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
The Royals confidently tailored their defense around Witt.
—Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2025
Whether towing its matching trailer or not, the Elevance SUV is carefully designed for moving confidently from city streets to primitive stretches of off-road.
—New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
As expected, Mahomes made all his game picks and confidently rolled with his Red Raiders to secure the afternoon victory.
—Cole Sullivan, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2025
Whereas Marissa definitely, confidently, wants to be a mum.
—Kate Aurthur, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
Footage from the movie was even confidently teased at CinemaCon back in 2024 but was completely absent this past spring as the movie underwent its reshoots.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
The second was a minimum viable product designed to secure private AI applications with runtime guardrails, enabling organizations to integrate AI confidently without the risk of unmanaged exposure — an approach now used across major global enterprises to safeguard their AI deployments at scale.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Expert instructors will teach you strategies to network successfully, revamp your resume and confidently transition into your dream career.
—Megan Sauer, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
The Royals confidently tailored their defense around Witt.
—Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2025
Whether towing its matching trailer or not, the Elevance SUV is carefully designed for moving confidently from city streets to primitive stretches of off-road.
—New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for confidently
Adverb
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And that’s not even considering the day-to-day ways that all Americans are positively affected by the military and its tradition of service.—
Chris Dovi,
USA Today,
11 Nov. 2025
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The Sacramento County Coroner’s Office had not yet positively identified McClintic.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
11 Nov. 2025
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Downstairs, a group of Americans are chatting joyfully.—
Lucy Kehoe,
AFAR Media,
31 Oct. 2025
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Amish are part of the wider Anabaptist movement, which puts heavy emphasis on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, containing some of his most radical and counter-cultural sayings — to love enemies, live simply, bless persecutors, turn the other cheek and to endure sufferings joyfully.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Everyone would sit at the dinner table expectantly, their pork chops in front of them, waiting for a knock at the door that would, inevitably, never come.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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Now Ronny looked up at her expectantly.—
Bryan Washington,
New Yorker,
7 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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They are felt as they are composed, painfully, joyously, cellularly—and they are designed for other biological beings to experience, to connect with, to be animated, provoked and moved by.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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My favorite style of Brazilian music is a roda de samba, where musicians play in a circle as the crowd joyously surrounds them at spots like Vaca Atolada or Pedra do Sal.—
Aaron Randolph,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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When large and small crowds in large and small towns gather respectfully, even exuberantly, to register their response to the country’s direction, measuring newsworthiness by body count or damage tallies misses the critical story.—
Nancy Gibbs,
Time,
17 Oct. 2025
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Large and cuddly, charismatic and exuberantly Afro’d, Quest is a real-life version of South Park‘s Chef.—
Touré,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The second is Nouvelle Vague, which giddily depicts the making of the French New Wave classic Breathless; by the end, the entire cast and crew have been driven up the wall by their mercurial director, Jean-Luc Godard (Guillaume Marbeck).—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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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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Next came a disastrous interview with CBS’s Katie Couric in which Palin seemed to reveal herself to be uninformed and blithely incurious about most things unrelated to Alaska.—
Time,
Time,
3 Nov. 2025
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His business associates view him as both blithely charming and, in a word, obsessed.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
1 Nov. 2025
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“Confidently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confidently. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.
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