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Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

A soldier who trained alongside him at the Army Foundation College, in Harrogate, told the BBC Khalife stood out for his cockiness, arrogance and over-confidence.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

Better still, Coleman finds the perfect tone to carry the musical, balancing cockiness and insecurity, loneliness and independence, and irony and sincerity.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2024

The first, Hodges recalled, was a certain cockiness.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023

Surely her cockiness, her optimism and energy, her pizzazz, will get her out of this.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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