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Recent Examples of overconfidence
The overconfidence and obsequiousness of LLMs are training choices.
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Bruce Schneier, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2026
If charisma, overconfidence, and style are the most popular markers of leadership, intuition is the most popular vehicle for identifying it.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
When price action is crisp and the fundamental story solid, the main hazards become overconfidence and overvaluation that can result from an over-extrapolation of positive macro trends.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2026
That posture strengthens hardliners inside Cuba and invites overconfidence outside it.
—Ricardo Torres, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
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Bruce Schneier, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2026
If charisma, overconfidence, and style are the most popular markers of leadership, intuition is the most popular vehicle for identifying it.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
When price action is crisp and the fundamental story solid, the main hazards become overconfidence and overvaluation that can result from an over-extrapolation of positive macro trends.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2026
That posture strengthens hardliners inside Cuba and invites overconfidence outside it.
—Ricardo Torres, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overconfidence
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Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach take turns transforming into floating marketplaces — docks converted to catwalks, hulls polished to reflective arrogance, sales reps who can quote fuel burn like yacht owners care about costs.—
Eric Barton,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2026
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College football is awash in problems, including the Big Ten’s unrivaled arrogance, and its never-ending list of demands that would make Notre Dame blush.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Speed is not overrated, confidence is required and cockiness is usually welcome.—
Nick Baumgardner,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2026
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The great thing is society already embraces cockiness—just not from women.—
Samyra,
SELF,
14 Jan. 2026
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Having built multibillion-dollar companies, often at a young age, their self-confidence frequently leads them to underestimate the complexities of public policy, to misunderstand public opinion, and to overestimate their ability to push large changes through quickly.—
Walter Russell Mead,
The Atlantic,
24 Jan. 2026
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For fledgling photographer Kristian Pederson, the antidote to this schism is a cosmic dose—a Faustian dose—of self-confidence.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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Many CEOs assume that once a capable CFO is in place, financial confidence will follow.—
Melissa Houston,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Now the public appears to have lost confidence in Noem.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Jan. 2026
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And those classic moments of self-assurance are ending with more buckets than ever.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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Such self-assurance brings nagging blind spots.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2026
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Chicago and Illinois, unfortunately, have been unable to offer such assurances.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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But probabilities are less sexy than proclamations, ambiguities less attractive than assurances—or so the rising number of storm-hyping accounts on social media seem to suggest.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
28 Jan. 2026
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By insisting on presumption, not persuasion, the public health mainstream has been doing much of Kennedy’s work on undermining vaccines for him.—
Peter M. Sandman,
STAT,
26 Jan. 2026
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But the presumption is Russian subs.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Overconfidence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overconfidence. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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