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as in assured
having or showing great faith in oneself or one's abilities
you'll need to be confident—even in the face of rejection—if you want to pursue a career in show business
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as in sure
having or showing a mind free from doubt
we were confident that the directions we had been given were accurate
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Recent Examples of confident
Models like these are also prone to occasionally hallucinating false facts and doing so with a confident tone.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2025
Conservatives are more confident than liberals in crypto.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
Any anxiety that India, for instance, might have initially felt about its neutrality on Ukraine quickly gave way to a confident defense of its right to strategic autonomy and to maintain dialogue with Moscow.
—Alexander Cooley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Faster, stronger and more confident, Riordan was a standout in the secondary against any and all opponents.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2025
Conservatives are more confident than liberals in crypto.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
Any anxiety that India, for instance, might have initially felt about its neutrality on Ukraine quickly gave way to a confident defense of its right to strategic autonomy and to maintain dialogue with Moscow.
—Alexander Cooley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Faster, stronger and more confident, Riordan was a standout in the secondary against any and all opponents.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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Rest assured, their efforts have and will continue to fail.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Rest assured, there will be no mistaking your platinum for gray.Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 9 Jan. 2025
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This is the fastest, surest way for losing franchises to U-turn back to contention.Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 12 Jan. 2025
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What To Know About Nesting Parties Basically, instead of sitting around and opening gifts and playing games—which can still be fun, sure—a nesting party is a more practical approach to getting ready for a new baby.Melissa Willets, Parents, 11 Jan. 2025
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And surveys indicate that business leaders are generally optimistic about hiring more workers in the coming months, expecting the incoming Trump administration to cut business taxes and regulations.Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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But as the winds driving the inferno have slackened, experts are cautiously optimistic that the blazes can soon be beaten back.Alec Luhn, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025
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Leaders' responses to this complexity may not always be ideal; many tend to give undue credence to complex thinking, viewing it as inherently positive rather than striving for simplification (confirmation bias).Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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He’s got No. 2/3 upside and this season has been a positive step in that direction.Scott Wheeler, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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At Aalto University, Amiri, the sustainability researcher, is also hopeful that the trend can grow globally—including in the U.S.Maddy Savage, TIME, 18 Jan. 2025
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Addressing pressing concerns such as identity, religious trauma, displacement and the challenge to stay hopeful in an increasingly difficult world, Oladokun displayed a knack for making her personal thoughts relatable to the masses.Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
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Commenters debated whether certain dog breeds were more prone to loafing and stretching in this way.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
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This can be attained by reinforcing the presence of human reviewers to evaluate generative AI outputs, flagging certain content before such models are released to the public.IESE Business School, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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What is the best way to stay private, secure and anonymous while browsing the web?Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 12 Jan. 2025
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In The Ones Who Live, our heroes encounter a completely powered and secure apartment, completely randomly, still untouched by the end of the world a decade plus into the apocalypse.Erik Kain, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Green would likely be proud of the award-winning bottles being produced today.Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 15 Jan. 2025
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The proud dad, 40, and his oldest child made history in October 2024 by becoming the first father-son duo to play together in the NBA.Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Confident.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confident. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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