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Adjective
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Couples should feel confident asserting their expectations, knowing the photographer will be their sole source of images from the ceremony.—
Nikita Khanna,
Vogue,
5 Feb. 2026 -
That extra power makes the Corolla Cross Hybrid a noticeably more enjoyable and confident drive.—
Adam Ismail,
The Drive,
5 Feb. 2026
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Professionals who are self-assured don’t need to perform credibility.—
Britney Porter,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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This is Louisville cooking at its most self-assured—global in influence, local in execution, and uninterested in chasing trends for the sake of it.—
Hannah Howard,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Jan. 2026
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But beyond the timeless hits, the strong-willed and self-confident Arcángel has become an avid supporter of next-gen stars including Bad Bunny, Young Miko, Feid, Grupo Frontera, Maria Becerra and Carrión.—
Jessica Roiz,
Billboard,
8 Jan. 2026
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Brown, intensely studious and both self-confident and self-critical, no longer looks like someone who is thinking through four different possibilities, trying to fit into the scheme, before acting on the field.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
1 Dec. 2025
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While she and his working mom (Sarah Snook) are initially seen as culprits, the boy’s selfish father (Jake Lacy, who played similar roles in the dire Moriarty adaptation Apples Never Fall and The White Lotus) turns out to be the guiltiest party of all.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Jan. 2026
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Guys are being selfish, trying to look for their own shots instead of looking for the right shot for the team.—
Tim Reynolds,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Jan. 2026
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Far too modest and deeply felt to come off as self-congratulatory, Ataei and Keshavarz’s film tells the story of two women — an avant-garde theater director and an improvisational dancer — whose friendship is as unbothered by the government as their work is defined by it.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 2026
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Her enthusiasm for connection and her earnest (but never self-congratulatory) search for truth seem to seep into the foundations of the novel, which is ultimately a hopeful tale of family transformation.—
Hannah Gold,
New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2026
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John Lithgow led the alien mission as the loud, lovable and wildly overconfident Dick Solomon – a role that earned him multiple awards and became one of TV comedy’s most memorable performances.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
31 Jan. 2026
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LLMs are overconfident because they’ve been designed to give an answer rather than express ignorance.—
Bruce Schneier,
IEEE Spectrum,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Self-gratulatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-gratulatory. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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