laid-backness

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Noun
  • With assurances of an immunity deal, David Wiley met with investigators at his attorney's office.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Such assurances are unlikely to quell the community’s decades-long experience with polluted runoff, however, and small farmers say that runoff could also present a food safety problem and threaten to set back years of organic farming practices.
    Thomas Heaton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Tormented by her own fears, doubted by her father’s peers, and infantilized by her older sister, Catherine (Ayo Edebiri in her Broadway debut) walks the line between self-confidence and deep distrust.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Demi Moore, who had just come off a seriously stylish awards season campaign for The Substance and who had spoken about all things beauty, aging and self-confidence as part of her promotion for the film, which looked at those topics through a comedic horror lens.
    Nancy Mattia, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Her self-assurance has kept her armored against the backlash and backhanded compliments that have surfaced in some online discourse surrounding her music.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Stylist Sydnee Paige—whose credits include actress Kerry Washington, WNBA player Skylar Diggins, and comedian Ziwe—has been working with Fudd since last September and can already attest to her blooming self-assurance.
    Jordan Robinson, SELF, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Something natural decay shares with human indifference and brutality—war, waste, and rot, literal and metaphorical.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
  • State lawmakers are considering changing the penalties for crimes in Colorado involving extreme indifference.
    Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) says symptoms depend on the patient, but MS can lead to muscle weakness, vision changes, walking problems, numbness, and more.
    Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Common symptoms can include numbness or tingling, slurred speech, electric-shock sensations accompanying certain neck movements, trouble walking or not being able to walk at all, partial or complete loss of vision, among others, according to the clinic.
    Anika Reed, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Lakers finished the regular season 22-8 in clutch situations, and that poise proved decisive once more.
    Dan Woike, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The outing wasn’t free of some jams, but Wright worked out of them with poise.
    Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But after being shunned by head coach Thomas Frank, his confidence looks low, a state of mind that wasn’t helped by putting his penalty over the bar in Wales’ World Cup play-off shootout defeat by Bosnia & Herzegovina in March.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The Magic will need to continue to play with a high level of confidence Wednesday night for Game 2.
    Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Courtesy of Netflix Advertisement Ha has felt particularly inspired by Sophie’s self-assuredness.
    Kat Moon, Time, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Hafley said his coaching experience at Boston College not only taught him what to do differently, but also lifted his self-assuredness in his first NFL head coaching job.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
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“Laid-backness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laid-backness. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.

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