confident
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Ms. Louis-Dreyfus gives a performance that shimmers with wit throughout, making a confident Broadway debut, even if her innate flair for comedy sometimes threatens to obscure the shadows that trail her character.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
“I truly believe and was confident that we would win this game,” coach Jim Harbaugh told reporters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
The punishment he absorbed has raised questions over whether his decision to take an immediate rematch has come too soon but Wardley remains confident he can reverse the result.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
CoreWeave did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday, though a company spokesperson told MarketWatch on Wednesday that it is confident that its revenue backlog “supports all of our debt obligations.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
I wasn’t at all confident that she would pass my application on to whomever actually made the hiring decisions.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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