‘As stupid as they seemed - one overconfident, one not confident enough - the two mercenaries were the best men for this job.’
‘There's a reason we feel confident, but I hardly feel overconfident.’
‘Organizations are powerful tools, however recalcitrant, but they can also be very presumptuous and overconfident.’
‘Lack of understanding makes them overconfident.’
‘I figured he must've been overconfident about his power.’
‘All I add is a note of caution, lest those who now mock become overconfident and leave themselves open to having the tables turned.’
‘And that is what makes the investigators anxious because they think he will become overconfident and slip up.’
‘He was overconfident, discourteous and condescending.’
‘Scientists advocating aggressive models of warming may be right - or they may be overconfident.’
‘In Morocco, while strutting along as an overconfident tourist, Wright bumped into some persistent muggers.’
‘He then pulled off an upset when the overconfident incumbent barely set foot in the state during the election.’
‘Like many overconfident, would-be sailors, he simply went overboard.’
‘Of course, there are always people who are overconfident about these hurricanes.’
‘We may be overconfident about our abilities in this regard, but there are data for our judgments.’
‘The two detectives are a hard-edged tough guy and a showboating, overconfident rookie.’
‘Despite Sinclair's advice I do not feel overconfident as I phone the hotel.’
‘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.’
‘Toward the end of his term, he had become overconfident.’
‘Instead, it seems to have made the players overconfident.’
‘More appropriately, I had become overconfident in my abilities.’
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