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Adjective
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Rangel, who was 10 years old when Mexico tied South Africa in the opening match of the 2010 World Cup and who fondly remembers El Tri’s victory over France that tournament, is confident between the posts.—
Eduard Cauich,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026 -
Schaeffer, however, is confident that change is on the way.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
11 June 2026
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Time gave us the late-career brilliance of filmmakers like Jane Campion, Agnès Varda, Claire Denis, and Kathryn Bigelow, whose work became richer, fiercer, and more self-assured because these women had lived and learned so much.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
31 May 2026
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Her perspective on pop, politics, and everything in between has remained consistently direct and self-assured.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2026
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There’s no shortage of people who work in TV news who are extremely self-confident.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2026
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First, Gibson is a self-confident if nerdy music therapist — and a wannabe pop composer — as George.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
9 May 2026
Adjective
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Both can be selfish, and both can be hard to see clearly on your own.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
12 June 2026
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Maeve could be selfish and self-deluding.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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The mood was celebratory and a bit self-congratulatory.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
14 May 2026
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Some experts say if Kim Jong Un sought to use the congress to solidify his daughter as successor, the signals would likely be subtle, such as self-congratulatory statements about North Korea’s survival and crediting that endurance to the successful inheritance of the socialist cause.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Feb. 2026
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In underwriting the loss can run to many times the premium, so a model that is right 95% of the time but wildly overconfident the rest can still be ruinous if its failures bunch together in the wrong place.—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Vaccine discussions continue to be distorted by bad-faith actors and overconfident non-clinicians.—
Adam Goodcoff,
STAT,
13 May 2026
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“Self-gratulatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-gratulatory. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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