How to Use overconfident in a Sentence

overconfident

adjective
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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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • But the Horned Frogs also benefited in playing an opponent that was overconfident and mistake-prone.
    — USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Don’t be overconfident in your abilities or refuse to listen to valuable advice from an experienced source.
    — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Typically overconfident in the difficulty of his murder-mystery game, Miles decides to overlook the circumstances of Blanc’s arrival and bring him along for the weekend.
    — Katie Rife, Chron, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Things get difficult for the overconfident CEO in periods of economic decline when they are publicly listed.
    — Grace Lordan, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Psychologists have found that when people evaluate themselves, those who perform the worst are often the most overconfident in their abilities.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024

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