confident
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Elite schools are confident students will accept admission offers, so acceptance rates have plummeted to 4% at some schools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
If someone is confident in their abilities, it’s much easier for them to accept responsibility for their mistakes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Other than that, he’s never seemed confident that the future will turn out all right, although he’s kept on working out his worries onscreen, forever hunting for flakes of hope in the rubble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Chong said that "Beijing seems highly confident of its ability to push back successfully against the US", were it pressured.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
He had that confident swagger that you knew meant he believed he could convince a scientist the world was flat.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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