laid-backness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for laid-backness
Noun
  • The assurance from Bondi that President Trump would not enforce the law was enough for Apple and Google to bring the app back.
    Bobby Allyn, NPR, 13 Feb. 2025
  • An article that year published by the Heritage Foundation — the group whose Project 2025 now appears, despite some Trump assurances to the contrary, to be driving much of his second administration’s rollout — laid out the case against the CFPB’s very existence.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This is the insidious nature of coercive control—a pattern of behaviors designed to strip away your independence, self-confidence and sense of reality.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
  • There is likely an underlying issue to tackle which is affecting the man's self-confidence.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But like lots of successful people, he’s earned his self-assurance day-by-day.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
  • With the self-assurance of an entrepreneur and the bluff of a big-time poker player, President Donald Trump inaugurated a new and uncertain era in U.S. trade relations this week.
    Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The sequence culminates with Elphaba’s hand slap, a sharp, defiant gesture against the crowd’s indifference.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 14 Feb. 2025
  • In 2023, Haenel announced her retirement from cinema, citing the complacency and indifference of the French industry to the #MeToo movement as the reason.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Sanders’s best attributes are his poise and coolness in late-game pressure situations.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2025
  • One Oiler almost went with the two superstars but wanted Mattias Ekholm’s poise and vision.
    Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • To Boost Investment Confidence Behavioral finance research suggests that small, incremental investment steps can help build confidence over time.
    Odiri Oginni, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Working harder can create adaptations faster—and be a major confidence booster.
    Jennifer Heimlich, SELF, 24 Feb. 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Laid-backness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laid-backness. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!