self-confidence
Example Sentences
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Trina Rodden from youth unemployment charity The Shaw Trust says they have seen a real increase in young people having self-confidence issues and anxiety, partly due to the pandemic.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
"Iceland is strong economically, but also in terms of national self-confidence, and thus able to make this decision," she said.
From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026
He recently told Sports Illustrated, however, that his self-confidence should not be mistaken for arrogance.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
These comparisons suggest an almost manic self-confidence, but in person, they land differently.
From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025
He was only twelve then, but he could have been twenty-two: his quick-fire intelligence was already being cooled by gravity, the brittle self-assuredness of adolescence already annealing into the self-confidence of adulthood.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
