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Adjective
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Experts are over 14 times more likely than light users to apply AI across all three phases and are twice as confident in the quality of their output.—
Ron Schmelzer,
Forbes.com,
20 July 2025 -
Cline, who plays the confident queen bee Danica Richards, is currently single.—
Samantha Stutsman,
People.com,
19 July 2025
Adjective
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Shayla is the affluent love interest of Steven in season 1, who is self-assured and poised.—
Lisa Stardust,
People.com,
16 July 2025
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Most of the new actors are terrific, either by leaning into the way their characters are younger and less self-assured than the originals, or by bringing definition to the sketchier and more obscure characters.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
15 July 2025
Adjective
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Anne Meara was the talk of the town in the role of a bag lady who spurned the self-congratulatory charity of guilty swells.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 July 2025
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Further, self-congratulatory crowing aside, the truth is that most low-income seniors already do not pay taxes on their Social Security benefits.—
Amber Gray-Fenner,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
Adjective
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In this story, the father’s behavior is exemplary and mothers (more than one) are selfish with bad habits who don’t act to their children’s benefit.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
14 July 2025
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The removal of living beings from their natural environment, along with the massive scale of human intervention, can be just as pernicious as the instinctive and selfish destruction that is often overlooked.—
PhotoVogue,
Vogue,
10 July 2025
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“Self-adulatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-adulatory. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
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