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Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

“And a humility. We have an optimism that we’re going to do this, but not a cockiness that we can mail it in.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2025

There was a control, a confidence, perhaps a cockiness at times, about their play.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2024

He has a confidence that borders on cockiness.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 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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