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Each song shudders with youthful cockiness and desperation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Natural talent allied with the cockiness that comes with knowing you are more gifted than your rivals made him an irresistible force.

From BBC • May 13, 2024

Nearly two months later, Newsom’s cockiness appears misplaced.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2024

The first, Hodges recalled, was a certain cockiness.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023

Not that they needed understanding—young people were the same in every generation—but this cockiness, this refusal to take seriously the gravest questions of their lives, nettled and irritated her.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee




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