lacking confidence

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The 30-year-old artist from Idaho found herself lacking confidence and routinely deferring to her older partner, a dynamic she attributed in part to a disparity in life experience.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

"Difficult day. Just lacking confidence in the rear of the car," said Hamilton after second practice.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2024

It was difficult to see Spence that way: depleted, beaten, lacking confidence.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2023

Lowe had knowledge of the “crazy” currents in the San Juan Islands from previous work and he remembers lacking confidence that the sub’s propulsion was strong enough to fight them.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2023

The opinions of the rest were as vacillating as their courage, many of them lacking confidence in the governor.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Various