lacking confidence
Example Sentences
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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
It was difficult to see Spence that way: depleted, beaten, lacking confidence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
Go Beyond, which gives vulnerable youngsters holidays, said children could be left isolated and lacking confidence as a result.
From BBC ● May 7, 2023
Investors seem to be lacking confidence that the central bank can walk the line of reining in inflation without triggering a recession.
From Washington Post ● May 9, 2022
But it was not easy for a man like himself, uneducated and lacking confidence of character, to advance as a bolder young man might have done.
From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
