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“I’m confident that the Lina Khan approach will quickly die. The details of how and when will have to be worked out,” Lipsky said.

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But it’s hard to be confident when you’re playing like this.

Speaking ahead of the final, Hadland said she went into the contest thinking she was "a very confident person" and someone who knows what she's capable of.

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“Penalizing Catholic Charities for serving Catholics and non-Catholics alike is ridiculous and wrong. We are confident the Supreme Court will reject the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s absurd ruling.”

He felt confident about being accepted, saying that he showed up to his first appointment after rehearsing his business plan.

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What are other ways to say confident?

The adjective confident emphasizes the strength of the belief or the certainty of expectation felt. Positive implies emphatic certainty, which may even become overconfidence or dogmatism. Certain suggests that there are definite reasons that have freed one from doubt. Sure, the simplest and most general term, expresses mere absence of doubt. 

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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