as in self-adulatory
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Adjective
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Little ‘confident’ federal roles will remain even as layoffs begin Much of Idaho’s resiliency to federal funding cuts will depend on its maintenance of a state budget surplus, Little said Tuesday.—
Sarah Cutler,
Idaho Statesman,
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However, Gomes is confident that the winter moves have given the Dodgers some added adrenaline for 2025 and will offset a potential championship hangover.—
John Perrotto,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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The difference is Epstein was self-assured enough to publicly admit some of his mistakes.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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Gone are the comfy days of feeling self-assured and having yes people circling him.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
Fox News,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Liberals without children fear they are seen as selfish careerists or libertines.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Dropping this much weight in such a short amount of time is both dangerous and, according to his teammates, selfish.—
Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Normally, Davos is a hotbed of planners and self-congratulatory humanitarians who dream up utopian schemes that then can be imposed from the top down by governments.—
John Fund,
National Review,
4 Feb. 2025
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The fourth episode, which takes place in an unusual setting, might turn off some fans who are through with self-congratulatory sci-fi antics and just want the plot to deliver a solution to its puzzle box.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA TODAY,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The caricature of Doug Gottlieb is the cheekily overconfident, know-it-all opinionator with no detectable filter.—
Brian Hamilton,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Social media worsens this as the simply act of sharing online can make users overconfident in their own knowledge.—
Callum Booth,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Self-gratulatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-gratulatory. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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