Example Sentences

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People think we shamelessly massage statistics, overconfidently make terrible predictions, and are no fun at drinks parties.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2019

But that was not quite the two-thirds majority needed to speed the bill through Congress on the “suspension of rules” that holiday sponsors had somewhat overconfidently attempted.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2014

It went from discounting early reports of problems to overconfidently announcing diagnoses and insufficient fixes.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2010

Following a bumper crop of corn in 1978, the Kenya government overconfidently slashed prices paid to farmers by nearly 30% and sold more than 200,000 tons of grain on the export market.

From Time Magazine Archive

The third round automatically began the tiring of the aging Liston, who was overconfidently trained to go only two rounds.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey