How To Use Overconfident In A Sentence
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The loss, he explains unwinkingly, was outrageous: ‘It was merely because we were so shockingly superior that we were inevitably shockingly overconfident.’
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So when South Ossetian rebels along with Russian commandos in Tskhinvali began their revolt, Putin knew this would cause Saakashvili to react overconfidently, and with great haste.
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He proved overconfident on the witness stand, misremembering a key piece of evidence.
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And that is what makes the investigators anxious because they think he will become overconfident and slip up.
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Even after noting that overconfidence is a death sentence on this show, he nonetheless began spouting the sort of overconfident crap that the Gods of Survivor, that is, Palin's Pimp, aka Mark Burnett, always slaps down hard: We're good for a minimum two to three more Tribals. ...
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Neither Tea Nor Sympathy.
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so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen
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Limited participation can arise endogenously in the presence of model uncertainty, and overconfident investors enter the market differently from the rational investors.
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He was overconfident, discourteous and condescending.
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A hawk hid under the potentilla bush and leaped suddenly on an overconfident prairie dog a little too far from its burrow.
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Like many overconfident, would-be sailors, he simply went overboard.
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We may be overconfident about our abilities in this regard, but there are data for our judgments.
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The two detectives are a hard-edged tough guy and a showboating, overconfident rookie.
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He was overconfident, discourteous and condescending.
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In Shakespeare's Henry V the French King Charles VI cautions his overconfident nobles that despite the erstwhile Prince Hal's reputation as a wastrel, the young invader is bred out of that bloody strain/That haunted us in our familiar paths.
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He tried to pack the Supreme Court with partisan allies and, overconfidently judging the economy recovered, retreated from the New Deal by instituting spending cuts that prompted a fresh economic tailspin.
Sunday Reading
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Of course, there are always people who are overconfident about these hurricanes.
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But there are still clues about the shooting that don't add up in Elliot's mind, and these get a brief pondering while Nathan overconfidently begins to take on more than the team can handle.
The Trades
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As stupid as they seemed - one overconfident, one not confident enough - the two mercenaries were the best men for this job.
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She suddenly remembered Philpott's warning about her being impulsive and overconfident.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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In Morocco, while strutting along as an overconfident tourist, Wright bumped into some persistent muggers.
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He then pulled off an upset when the overconfident incumbent barely set foot in the state during the election.
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Overconfident, I carelessly turned onto my home street in Arlington, where the snow remained deep, at least six inches, and unplowed immediately after the storm.
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Despite Sinclair's advice I do not feel overconfident as I phone the hotel.
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`I love overconfident opposition, they always make mistakes.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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Ridden perhaps a little overconfidently by regular jockey Mike Smith, the 1-5 shot Zenyatta got the job done in the final lunge after Anabaa's Creation, who stalked the deliberate pace of Lethal Heat, got a narrow advantage in deep stretch.
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More appropriately, I had become overconfident in my abilities.
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People who are overconfident tend to neglect their deficiencies.
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There's a reason we feel confident, but I hardly feel overconfident.
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He proved overconfident on the witness stand, misremembering a key piece of evidence.
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Lack of understanding makes them overconfident.
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I thought it would be good for me to look at someone every day who was overconfident, who misjudged the odds and his own abilities, and who lost everything.
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Instead, it seems to have made the players overconfident.
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He proved overconfident on the witness stand, misremembering a key piece of evidence.
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He proved overconfident on the witness stand, misremembering a key piece of evidence.
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His puck-handling prowess can cause him to get overconfident or rattled by elements such as a kink in the boards of a road arena.
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I have just come across yet another site that faithfully provides us with Pokorny's work, rather overconfidently named Linguistics Research Center, a site coming from the University of Texas.
Pokorny lives again
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From a cerebral, indomitable, and ultimately overconfident persona, MacArthur tipped into an unsoldierly emergency-man mode.
Magic and Mayhem
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He said that drivers that have been ‘driving for decades have a tendency of being overconfident’ on the road, often causing them to misjudge certain conditions and causing serious accidents.
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Limited participation can arise endogenously in the presence of model uncertainty, and overconfident investors enter the market differently from the rational investors.
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He proved overconfident on the witness stand, misremembering a key piece of evidence.
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Many of Jay Ward's characters and catchphrases have since morphed into pop-culture shorthand: Dudley Do-Right, the clueless Mountie, is shorthand for anybody who stumbles into a situation overconfident he's doing the right thing; Snidely Whiplash, Do-Right's nemesis, for a scenery-chewing villain; the "Waybac" Machine, Mr. Peabody's time-travel system, for a nostalgia flashback; as well as expressions such as "nothing up my sleeve ... presto!" and
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The third round automatically began the tiring of the aging Listen, who was overconfidently trained to go only two rounds.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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A half-minute had passed when Sandel, overconfident, left an opening.
A PIECE OF STEAK
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On Tuesday, John Paulson, who shot to fame on a bet against subprime bets, told investors on a call that he had been wrong on the timing of a recovery and had overconfidently bet that too many stock prices would rise, according to several people who listened in.
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`I love overconfident opposition, they always make mistakes.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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Toward the end of his term, he had become overconfident.
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Villa and his men were overconfident and did no scouting of the area.
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Scientists advocating aggressive models of warming may be right - or they may be overconfident.
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All I add is a note of caution, lest those who now mock become overconfident and leave themselves open to having the tables turned.
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Organizations are powerful tools, however recalcitrant, but they can also be very presumptuous and overconfident.
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She suddenly remembered Philpott's warning about her being impulsive and overconfident.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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I figured he must've been overconfident about his power.
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And to account for the hyperbole, perhaps the cheater is overconfident in his spouse’s ability to learn of and punish an affair, whereas in the present, he can more accurately determine that the affair will go unnoticed and end on its own terms. —
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