self-assurance

Example Sentences

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Among the café-table clichés that experts and geopoliticians string together with astonishing self-assurance, one is particularly striking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Hegseth flippantly employed villainous colloquialism – “they are toast and they know it,” “we play for keeps,” and “President Trump got the last laugh” – delivered with a combative tone that communicated masculine self-assurance.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2026

That said, you have self-assurance and agency and, at 55, it’s good to flex those muscles.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 27, 2025

For most of them the skills, self-assurance and success they developed in that magical summer on the field have followed them into the classroom, where they have continued to excel and defy expectations.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024

But he carried himself with the self-assurance of a successful gentleman who was proud of his wife, proud of his family, and proud of his business accomplishments.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey