overconfidence
Example Sentences
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When the market mob is too greedy, or too afraid—and that is the essence of a huge move, up or down—options-centric investors look to buy on fear and sell on overconfidence.
From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026
New Year’s resolutions may be the most widespread behavioral experiment ever attempted—a great unsupervised trial in overconfidence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025
The main pluses humans have going for them are their overconfidence and yearning to manipulate anything and anyone they can for their own ends.
From Salon • Sep. 24, 2025
With Ramsey standing at just over 5 feet tall, Ellie uses her size as an asset — combining nimbleness and reckless overconfidence to subdue much larger foes, people and infected alike.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025
It was an error of a commander’s overconfidence, small in history, large in the lives of those men.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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