self-confident
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The plaintive observation, ascribed to the early Victorian British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne about the acerbically self-confident historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, remains the motto of the thoughtfully skeptical man through the ages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
The self-confident, stay-as-they-are Dodgers did right by not panicking at the trade deadline and keeping the roster pretty much intact.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2025
Both men—Mattis a retired Marine four-star general, Tillerson a former Exxon CEO—were supremely self-confident.
From Slate • Sep. 2, 2024
Jam and Lewis helped Janet express a side of her personality – self-confident and in command – that the public had never seen before.
From BBC • Jul. 24, 2024
The self-confident fifteen-year-old paid no heed to their discontent and discourteously stormed out.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Vocabulary lists containing self-confident
"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 6
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Ten Most Relevant Words: War and Peace, Chapters 1&2
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Part 2 Vocabulary (Unit 5)
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