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confident

When someone is confident, the person is certain of something. I am confident that I will win.

confident

having or marked by confidence or assurance a confident speaker a confident reply his manner is more confident these days confident of fulfillment (= surefooted) not liable to error in judgment or action most surefooted of the statesmen who dealt with the depression — Walter Lippman demonstrates a surefooted storytelling talent — Michiko Kakutani (= convinced, positive) persuaded of; very sure were convinced that it would be to their advantage to join I am positive he is lying was confident he would win

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Simple sentences

Tom started to feel more confident than before.
Tom felt very confident.
We're feeling confident.
I remain confident that that'll happen.
He is confident of his abilities.
You need to be confident.
Tom is confident that he achieved something.
We're confident that you are up to the challenge of the new position.
I'm sorry, but I'm not confident of her success.
I am confident he will keep his promise.
He is confident of his ability.
Tom is a confident young man.
Since this isn't your native language, I'd suggest unowning this sentence, leaving it free for a native speaker to adopt. This way we can all be confident that it's a good sentence.
Tom is confident.
We're confident.
You don't sound confident.
I don't feel very confident.
It makes me feel more confident.
It's a terrible shame that fools are so self-confident and the wise are full of doubt.
He's confident and strong.
The defense lawyer was confident that he would be able to answer the prosecutor's arguments in his rebuttal.
We are firmly confident of victory.
I'm confident of passing the examination.
We're confident of our victory.
People are most angry when they feel they are being mocked. That's why those who are confident in themselves seldom become angry.
I'm confident.
She's not confident about the future.
We are confident of victory.
I'm confident that I'll pass the exam.
I'm confident that you'll succeed.
I'm confident that I'll win the tennis match.

Movie subtitles

A self-confident one-party state.
I was confident, in the course of their investigation, they would reach out to you and Tom, and they did.
They are absolutely confident.
It is strictly confident for the time being.
You're honest, simple, confident.
Let us be confident working for this great country to show the world what America can do.
And so self-confident.
Proud of their numbers and secure in soul, the confident and over-Iusty French do the low-rated English play at dice, and chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who like a foul and ugly witch doth limp so tediously away.
Suddenly, I'm above the ordinary. I'm confident, supremely confident.
So do you blame us for feeling fairly confident that he's the man who put four shots out of six into Beragon?
Suddenly I felt totally calm. I felt completely confident.
A little too well-bred, self-confident.
Dr. Pierce makes me feel perfectly confident.
The Empire is confident of the strong friendship of the Mongolian people.
I'm confident that Your Highness' praiseworthy efforts will be rewarded with success.
However, I'm quite confident that he won't trifle with our friendship.
And I don't care how big the city, I feel confident. you're going to be successful.
Right now they're on their way to becoming confident human beings.
You're very confident, aren't you?
Revolution had broken out, her diplomats sued for peace while Tomainia's army fought on, confident its war machine would smash the enemy's lines.
Let us rejoice, then, at this moment. Let us be confident,.work together to show the world what Americans can do.
Why are you so confident, Professor?
I was confident that in the course of their investigation, they would reach out to you and Tom.
Oh, if I was confident about this my shoes wouldn't feel so uncomfortable.
However Jaffrey is confident that we can collect these bonds immediately.
They come confident in the knowledge that nothing of what they confess will be disclosed to anybody outside the institution.
Erna has become calm and confident.
Straight and confident.
Yes, you know, forceful, confident and effectual.
I thought perhaps you'd like to know he's, uh, very confident.
And there wad he, dtrong and confident.
I'm Carrot Top: Confident, clever, capable of running his life and yours and everybody else's.
You sound prettly confident.
I've been confident, ever since he got himself that squaw.
So confident, so pleased with ourselves, until he began asking us questions.

News and current affairs

Big challenges lie ahead, but I am confident that with the support of the global community, I can leave to my own children and community a thriving country where every person has the opportunity to prosper.
Had we been more confident and less full of bluster, we would have organized seminar after seminar to analyze what happened, to understand the reasons behind it, and to plan for a future without a similar tragedy.
The world needs a more modest and confident America.
Overall, after almost 25 years of stunning prosperity, punctuated by only two mild recessions, most Americans feel pretty confident about their economic situation.
Moreover, unlike the Chinese, they have not always been confident of their position in the world.
On one hand, China's economic revolution has helped position it in the world as a confident powerhouse of trade, a more responsible global powerbroker, and even as a reassuring military presence.
EDINBURGH - Over the last three decades or so, central bankers and academics have become increasingly confident that inflation targeting is the key to preserving macroeconomic stability.
Even in the self-confident Ottoman Empire, where Jews and Christians enjoyed considerable tolerance, followers of these religions were second-class citizens.
Gradually, with lenders becoming increasingly confident in subsequent years that low inflation was here to stay, real long-term interest rates began heading south.
If giving businesses extra cash makes them more confident, they will spend more.
Hamas feels more confident next to an Egypt dominated by its parent movement.
Another is that investors and corporate treasurers could become increasingly confident and aggressive in borrowing euros to convert into dollars and take advantage of higher US rates.
They could be confident, however, that when the time came to correct a deficiency, the necessary political will could be summoned.
Of course, I am confident that the eurozone's ongoing sovereign-debt crisis will be overcome, and that a more integrated and effective Europe will emerge.
If it was the economy that would decide Britain's election, Prime Minister David Cameron would be leading a much more confident campaign.
China was already accustomed to rapacious Western powers squabbling over its riches, but had remained self-confident in the knowledge of these powers' irrelevance.
I am confident that, notwithstanding the headwinds blowing from the eurozone crisis and the slump in demand worldwide, China can continue its dynamic growth.
WASHINGTON, DC - In most developed countries, patients can be confident about the safety of blood transfusions.
The micro-financier, confident of being repaid, is willing to extend the emergency loan quickly and with little bureaucracy.
This is a further reason why we need economic union: markets would be less likely to react negatively to temporarily higher deficits if they were more confident in future growth prospects.
The Chinese government, under the Communist Party, has every reason to feel confident.
With its defense spending having grown almost twice as fast as its GDP, China is now beginning to take the gloves off, confident that it has acquired the necessary muscle.
Open, confident, and cosmopolitan, China connected with the world with ease, adopting new ideas, and projecting its own indigenous creations.
German exports are not being substantially damaged by the strong euro-indeed, German costs are so competitive that exporters are confident they can cope with the euro at 1.50 dollars and even higher.
Without personal experience of China's recent traumatic history, the next generation will be more confident and assertive.

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