cocksure
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Burdened by unquenchable ambition, cocksure confidence and immeasurable talent, Whistler was in many ways an outlier of his age, with an inside track to 20th-century modernism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 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
That’s also why the cocksure predictions issuing from Davos year after year are so risibly unreliable, the vision of the future so clouded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
As his banishment gets closer, he only grows more cocksure.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2023
He had a gift for sleeping, he’d boasted, smiling in that cocksure way of his.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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