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Just now, there doesn’t seem to be much left of Bankman-Fried’s personal ambitions other than the shards of his regulatory proposal, presented so self-confidently to the House Agriculture Committee on May 12.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2022

In “The Book of Strange New Things,” his ruddy, swell-scrubbed sentences roll self-confidently along, in the manner of John Irving or Ethan Canin.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2014

Pausing only to sip cherry-flavored water, Brezhnev spoke self-confidently on a wide range of subjects, taking a tough but carefully qualified attitude.

From Time Magazine Archive

It self-confidently proclaims the death of God and man's freedom from supernatural authority and seeks to build "a radically 'natural' civilization, without reference to any kind of transcendence."

From Time Magazine Archive

She carried herself with the spring and grace of one who walks through life self-confidently, fortified always with the knowledge that she was a favourite with women as well as with men.

From A People's Man by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)