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Example sentences for: overconfidence

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And they neglect, through ignorance or overconfidence, to take the elementary precautions that would guard against such lapses: above all, to mark up their scripts, the way actors do--inserting a vertical pause here, or a curving tonemarker there, or an underlining to cue emphasis, or three dots to indicate a dying fall...
There's an indiscriminateness to these lapses, an overconfidence.
2) The overconfidence: What kind of alarmingly self-deluded defendant, knowing what Clinton must have known about his own behavior, would have failed to settle the Paula Jones case?
If stock prices really were being driven solely by inflated margin balances and the overconfidence bred by years of 20 percent plus returns, you'd expect investors to be forgiving.