The two detectives are a hard-edged tough guy and a showboating, overconfident rookie. |
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A hawk hid under the potentilla bush and leaped suddenly on an overconfident prairie dog a little too far from its burrow. |
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Organizations are powerful tools, however recalcitrant, but they can also be very presumptuous and overconfident. |
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We may be overconfident about our abilities in this regard, but there are data for our judgments. |
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All I add is a note of caution, lest those who now mock become overconfident and leave themselves open to having the tables turned. |
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Grilled branzino, boned tableside by an overconfident server, presented an unappetizing prospect of miscellaneous chunks and flakes. |
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In Morocco, while strutting along as an overconfident tourist, Wright bumped into some persistent muggers. |
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Despite Sinclair's advice I do not feel overconfident as I phone the hotel. |
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He then pulled off an upset when the overconfident incumbent barely set foot in the state during the election. |
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Of course, there are always people who are overconfident about these hurricanes. |
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And that is what makes the investigators anxious because they think he will become overconfident and slip up. |
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His puck-handling prowess can cause him to get overconfident or rattled by elements such as a kink in the boards of a road arena. |
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The risk is that overconfident group members aren't laying the foundation for the healthy habits needed to maintain their health as they age. |
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Canadians have been overconfident at some times and under-confident at others. |
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One of the lessons learned from all of this is that no one should be overconfident. |
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Many investors are overconfident and overestimate their investment knowledge and abilities. |
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Because the overconfident think they're healthy, their responses indicate that they aren't being proactive to ensure they stay healthy. |
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Certainly the 2004 elections were not the evidence of a sweepingly-red nation that they were taken to be by overconfident Republicans. |
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This American primary season has been too volatile, dissentious and just plain eccentric for any overconfident forecast prior to the event. |
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If you drive a four-wheel drive vehicle, don't become overconfident when driving in snow. |
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This should act as a warning to us all against feeling too clever, too overconfident and too sure of our own omnipotence. |
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Villa and his men were overconfident and did no scouting of the area. |
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In contrast, fundamentalism is literalistic, overconfident and reactionary. |
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But we have had discussions about how maybe Tel Aviv residents are overconfident. |
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They should, he said, be neither boastful and overconfident nor despondent and hopeless. |
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Admittedly, the BICEP team's original press conference looks, with hindsight, seriously overconfident. |
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There is psychology at work here: investors tend to become complacent and overconfident after a long period of very good results. |
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People are generally overconfident, value justice and value the present unreasonably more than the future. |
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Even if we are familiar with them, we should not be overconfident as they always entail risks. |
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I thought it would be good for me to look at someone every day who was overconfident, who misjudged the odds and his own abilities, and who lost everything. |
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There's a reason we feel confident, but I hardly feel overconfident. |
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Like many overconfident, would-be sailors, he simply went overboard. |
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After Odo's escape the Muslims had become overconfident and failed to maintain defenses or scout patrols. |
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To other people, that will sound overconfident, but it's not. |
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They may be a little overconfident and looking to put on a show for their supporters at the end of the qualification campaign, so we'll be fighting right till the death. |
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As investors watched their wealth grow, they became overconfident. |
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While some observers have installed the Spanish as favourites for the title next year in South Africa, the players and coaching staff will not be getting overconfident. |
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I know we don't like to be overconfident, but I view it as an accomplishment and as recognition that the Saint John Sea Dogs, right now, are the No. 1-ranked team in the country. |
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Do not become overconfident as to road conditions. |
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Applicants generally apply to and rank several programs, and therefore programs who are overconfident in their ability to attract applicants and who do not list all acceptable applicants for their program, may not fill. |
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And because alcohol affects judgment, people who drive after drinking may feel overconfident and not recognize that their driving skills are reduced. |
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They found that the firms of distrusting entrepreneurs were more likely to survive than the firms of optimistic or overconfident entrepreneurs. |
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They had also not seen any enemy aircraft since landing at San Carlos and may have been overconfident in the air defences. |
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These easy victories over unprepared US and European opponents left Japan overconfident, as well as overextended. |
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