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Recent Examples of confidently
The classically louche yet confidently glitzy Golden Globes energy had been missing for much of the night until Roberts, a true movie star who couldn’t care less, came onstage to present the award for Best Musical or Comedy.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Maybe this is as close as critics and artists are ever likely to ever get — sitting at different tables in the same oversized pan-Asian restaurant in front of a giant Quan Yin statue that Adrien Brody so confidently misidentified as Shiva last year.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Jan. 2026
This legal normalization fuels a more open dialogue and reduces stigma, encouraging people who were once hesitant to explore cannabis openly and confidently.
—Amplified Content Studio, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
Read on for 10 January outfit ideas that will keep you cozy, cute, and confidently stepping into the year ahead.
—Belle Bakst, InStyle, 6 Jan. 2026
Had there been a bus stop outside, could Moxley have more confidently turned out Rideout, locked the doors, and slept peacefully through the night?
—S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
Nor can any trend confidently be inferred from the fact that Sunday was the warmest day in the past six, going back to the last two days of December.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
There aren’t many ballhandling options in Houston, and even fewer of those options can confidently make shots.
—Law Murray, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Beyond the system’s superficial tone and pleasantries, Martin and Souza had to contend with the serious issue of hallucinations, or instances in which AI systems confidently share false or exaggerated information.
—Jared Perlo, NBC news, 3 Jan. 2026
Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Maybe this is as close as critics and artists are ever likely to ever get — sitting at different tables in the same oversized pan-Asian restaurant in front of a giant Quan Yin statue that Adrien Brody so confidently misidentified as Shiva last year.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Jan. 2026
This legal normalization fuels a more open dialogue and reduces stigma, encouraging people who were once hesitant to explore cannabis openly and confidently.
—Amplified Content Studio, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
Read on for 10 January outfit ideas that will keep you cozy, cute, and confidently stepping into the year ahead.
—Belle Bakst, InStyle, 6 Jan. 2026
Had there been a bus stop outside, could Moxley have more confidently turned out Rideout, locked the doors, and slept peacefully through the night?
—S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
Nor can any trend confidently be inferred from the fact that Sunday was the warmest day in the past six, going back to the last two days of December.
—Martin Weil, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
There aren’t many ballhandling options in Houston, and even fewer of those options can confidently make shots.
—Law Murray, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Beyond the system’s superficial tone and pleasantries, Martin and Souza had to contend with the serious issue of hallucinations, or instances in which AI systems confidently share false or exaggerated information.
—Jared Perlo, NBC news, 3 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for confidently
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On December 18, 2025, the North Carolina Chief Medical Examiner’s Office, with assistance from the North Carolina SBI Crime Lab, positively identified the remains as Bethany Brown.—
Mark Price
January 7,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Jan. 2026
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After starting positively under Dyche, Forest have lost their past four games, leaving them four points above West Ham in 17th.—
Roshane Thomas,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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Consider Virginia McLaurin, who joyfully danced with the Obamas at age 106 and later supported youth mentoring, or Edith Renfrow Smith, now 110, whose advocacy for education continues to inspire.—
Norman B. Gildin,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Jan. 2026
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Warming up, Smith throws back his head and belts Bieber lyrics, joyfully off-key.—
Sam Kestenbaum,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Gilberg considered the question, hands clasped beneath his chin, the traffic outside humming expectantly.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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Inside, guests are greeted by the cozy tavern, a cocktail of rustic Adirondack style and modern trappings—the tables adorned in their nightly best, expectantly awaiting patrons.—
Lauren Breedlove,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Abu Daqqa shows videos set to music of him riding his sleek, silver and black machine, circling fast and joyously in the waves, testing its speed and agility.—
NPR,
NPR,
24 Nov. 2025
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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
Adverb
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Stewart, who has been a Chanel ambassador since 2013 and has therefore worn the designs of all three of the brand’s post-Coco Chanel designers, saw a realism in the models’ mix of casual clothes and exuberantly formal ones, with jackets thrown over arms and newspapers stuffed into handbags.—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
3 Dec. 2025
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Hell, clearly the most violent of the realms, makes for the most exuberantly entertaining of the books, filled with action, fantastical monsters, and occasional farce.—
Claudia Roth Pierpont,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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The girls are giddily planning the wedding and bachelorette party as if several core issues are not still unresolved.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2025
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Just a few weeks earlier, Miguel Angel Garcia Medina, 31, had been cavorting with his four children at their Arlington, Texas, home, meeting his 8-year-old daughter for lunch at school and giddily planning the arrival of their fifth child.—
Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
22 Nov. 2025
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The Democrat had joked about shooting the Republican leader of the state House and blithely spoken of watching his children die in their mother’s arms.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
3 Dec. 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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“Confidently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confidently. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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