Example Sentences

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Here, in effect, stood American corporations incarnate: massive, spectacular, inventive, prosperous, self-confident.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

The self-confident, stay-as-they-are Dodgers did right by not panicking at the trade deadline and keeping the roster pretty much intact.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2025

Both men—Mattis a retired Marine four-star general, Tillerson a former Exxon CEO—were supremely self-confident.

From Slate • Sep. 2, 2024

Jam and Lewis helped Janet express a side of her personality – self-confident and in command – that the public had never seen before.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2024

They were led by a talkative and self-confident Iraqi refugee named Peshawa Hamad and a quiet, graceful Sudanese player named Shamsoun Dikori, whose younger brothers, Idwar and Robin, played on the Under Thirteens.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John