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Recent Examples of overconfidence
This Full Moon is about faith, but the shadow is overconfidence or assuming everything will work out without effort.
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Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Jan. 2026
Concerns about his height (6-foot-1-inch), regression in 2025 and arm overconfidence are valid.
—Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
Behaviorally, critics say, people approach prediction markets as a gambler would—and because prediction market platforms are promoted as an investment tool, there is arguably the danger of even riskier user activity due to overconfidence in trading.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Tyrants generally get drunk on their own power, which progressively reduces restraint, increases entitlement and self-focus and amps up risk taking and overconfidence while escalating social isolation, corruption and defensive paranoia.
—David Brooks, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
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Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Jan. 2026
Concerns about his height (6-foot-1-inch), regression in 2025 and arm overconfidence are valid.
—Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
Behaviorally, critics say, people approach prediction markets as a gambler would—and because prediction market platforms are promoted as an investment tool, there is arguably the danger of even riskier user activity due to overconfidence in trading.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Tyrants generally get drunk on their own power, which progressively reduces restraint, increases entitlement and self-focus and amps up risk taking and overconfidence while escalating social isolation, corruption and defensive paranoia.
—David Brooks, Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overconfidence
Noun
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Too few compliments make kids feel slighted, while too many can inspire arrogance.—
Wayne Parker,
Parents,
8 Mar. 2026
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Adam McKay’s toxically smug dissection of Dick Cheney fails to take the full measure of this monstrous vice-president, but even so, Bale taps into something elemental about the man’s arrogance and domineering personality.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2026
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Wednesday’s briefing, for example, featured the usual Hegseth hubris, strutting, and cockiness.—
Peter Wehner,
The Atlantic,
6 Mar. 2026
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Some players exhibit confidence that borders on cockiness.—
Andrew Baggarly,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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Pollack’s self-confidence is the ultimate security blanket for the Warriors.—
Steve Reaven,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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An expert shares tips to help your children develop self-esteem and self-confidence.—
Emily Edlynn,
Parents,
28 Feb. 2026
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Your confidence is boosted by Love Goddess Venus sextiling powerful Pluto — and with Venus in your sign, that boost is even stronger.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
10 Mar. 2026
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Your quick mind spots what to improve, and your confidence helps others get on board.—
Tarot.com,
The Orlando Sentinel,
9 Mar. 2026
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With layers that start below the chin and frame your face so flattering, this hairstyle is supposed to exude the self-assurance and effortlessly chic attitude of the quintessential 1990s model cuts (think Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer).—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
7 Mar. 2026
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Jackson was renowned for his soaring rhetoric, his role in the civil-rights movement, and his sharp elbows, but what first struck me about him, as a young reporter only a couple of years out of journalism school, was his boundless energy and self-assurance.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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Anthropic sought assurance that its technology would not be tapped for fully autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance, but the DOD wanted Anthropic to grant the agency unfettered access to Claude across all lawful purposes.—
Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
6 Mar. 2026
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But even after those assurances, the Select Board is holding on tight to its March 17 deadline to issue an entertainment license for FIFA to hold the World Cup at Gillette.—
Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
5 Mar. 2026
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This reflects a historical and fundamental societal disregard for Black children, particularly Black boys, as human beings — a society that does not extend to them the same presumption of childhood or worthiness of grace that is typically afforded to white children.—
Erika Strauss Chavarria,
Baltimore Sun,
10 Mar. 2026
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International humanitarian law was conceived around the presumption of human judgment in the context of proportionality and distinction.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Overconfidence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overconfidence. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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