cocksure
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“I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
And it became famous for Ingle's unconventional training methods which allowed his boxers to become flamboyant and cocksure with fancy footwork.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
As his banishment gets closer, he only grows more cocksure.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2023
As she read her statement in court, gone was the cocksure grin, replaced by sobbing.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023
Peter would be proud of me, I thought as I worked—and was flooded by a wave of lonesomeness for that brave and cocksure boy.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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