Example Sentences

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I've heard more than one pundit self-assuredly declare that we will have to endure Santos for a long time.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2023

If you quickly and self-assuredly answer “yes” to any of these questions, you are dangerously overconfident.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2023

As he self-assuredly walks several feet from waves gently lapping at the shore, my mind turns to a favorite book from my childhood, Walter Farley’s “The Black Stallion.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2019

Kohan is now fully and self-assuredly committing to the kind of incendiary social commentary few other shows even attempt, let alone pull off.

From The Verge • Jun. 20, 2016

Barnes was a quaint, old-fashioned place: pristine, cosy, self-assuredly middle-class.

From The Guardian • Dec. 26, 2010