overconfident
Example Sentences
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“I got overconfident a couple times, went, ‘Yep, nope, not good for me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
"Damon's Odysseus is stubborn, overconfident and sacrilegious, but doesn't bear that much resemblance to the conniving, hypocritical egotist of lore who fretted over his wife's fidelity," she noted.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
They’re all here, and they have as much overconfident swagger as a plucky young star on the Disney Channel.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
He misses the possibility of repeating the error when, in the same document, he settles—in one decisive, overconfident paragraph—the question of whether the cognitive systems we are building could ever have inner lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
We had become overconfident, and were reminded that we were facing a serious charge.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
