self-assured

Example Sentences

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A self-assured, naive young woman joins a dysfunctional theater company in Beryl Bainbridge’s darkly comic novel of mishaps and maturity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

“Katie’s a very tenacious, self-assured individual,” recalled Jordan Ball, who was a senator for the opposition party.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

Kiley is normally a bubbly girl with long brown hair and a self-assured smile, but as she kept raising her phone to take a photo, then stopping, her eyes saddened.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

Grimes’ vocals still dart and jab around most tracks, but tracks like “California” carry the unmistakable, self-assured delivery of a person who just started making their own granola.

From Salon • Nov. 7, 2025

He could take a joke, and put on such an ironic self-assured face no one felt bad laughing.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez