How to Use overconfident in a Sentence

overconfident

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• Don’t get overconfident and try to forge ahead when the roads are covered in sleet.
  — Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• About 3 1/2 hours south in Cincinnati, the Ohio State alums played the overconfident role this week.
  — cleveland, 30 Dec. 2022
• Fury shouldn’t get too overconfident because Wilder is still one of the hardest punchers in the game (98% KO rate).
  — Manouk Akopyan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2021
• The defense has adjusted since then, and while there’s no reason to be overconfident, the changes are working.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2021
• Anthony Gash said the team came into the El Camino game overconfident.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2023
• Every team around the league is aware of how those games can become a trap for an overconfident group that tries to downplay the competition.
  — Shane Young, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• So there’s always a risk that Cruise's and Waymo’s leaders will become overconfident the way Uber’s leaders did five years ago.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 1 June 2023
• Jim: Maybe the best-case scenario for Democrats is that Trump, overconfident from his current surge, starts venting his spleen and seeming even more unhinged.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
• In periods of growth, the errors made by overconfident CEOs are often buffered by the upswing of the economic cycle.
  — Grace Lordan, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
• Like Poole, Bouknight is a craft playmaker, active off the ball, and is sometimes overconfident in his shot selection.
  — Rusty Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 July 2021
• Don’t get overconfident; weird things can happen when division rivals play for a third time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
• One reason most acquisitions fail is the hubris of an overconfident CEO who overpays, Sainani says.
  — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2023
• The Cowboys are coming off a big win and may be feeling overconfident about their chances while the Giants are motivated after a loss.
  — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
• The orders, for a unit of the 26th Tank Regiment, were oddly overconfident, to the point of being contradictory.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• The mentally strong have found the right middle ground between overconfident and paralyzed by fear of failure.
  — Scott Mautz, Contributor, CNBC, 12 July 2024
• The film allows Garfield to draw together all the various selves developed in the course of his career: the drunken flirt, the tender lover, the doomed rebel, the overconfident tough guy, the hardened cynic, the self-loathing dreamer.
  — Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2022
• Instead of overconfident predictions, a more realistic goal at this point is trying to assess the factors that will shape the midterm vote.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
• The researchers found that margin investors were more overconfident in their knowledge than their cash counterparts.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2022
• Wednesday’s announcement came on the heels of a massive profile of Licht in The Atlantic, which portrayed him as overconfident but incapable of leading the network.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 7 June 2023
• Richardson took a wait-and-see approach to see if Reichel would be overconfident after a nice showing against the Arizona Coyotes, which by consensus was his best game as a pro so far.
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
• Setting up camp at high altitude left me feeling a bit overconfident.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2018
• So, for investors, paying attention to which fund managers are overconfident in the home country’s future prospects could help boost your returns.
  — Derek Horstmeyer, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2022
• Has social media sown doubt in an authority that can be perceived to be overconfident?
  — Porismita Borah, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2020
• Read up and pay attention Don’t be cowed by the criminals’ incessant attempts – or be overconfident.
  — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• Moscow was overconfident in its intelligence, in the ability of its agents to influence events and politics inside Ukraine, and in its own armed forces.
  — Dara Massicot, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2022
• He’s played by Will Forte, whose specialty is playing overconfident clowns, and whose performance at times seems to point in a MacGruber direction.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024
• But O'Malley Dillion pressed that the campaign wasn't falling into the political trap of being overconfident.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 23 June 2020
• That seems somewhat overconfident, however, for a rocket once predicted to launch in 2020.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2021
• As the week unfolds, however, be careful not to give people the wrong impression or become overconfident in your abilities.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2020
• Vance is an exceptionally confident pick by Donald Trump for his running mate, some might say an overconfident pick.
  — Jim Geraghty, Washington Post, 15 July 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024