as in reckless
foolishly adventurous or bold
the overconfident quarterback made some careless decisions that cost him the game
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Recent Examples of overconfident
Overall, finding policy solutions for highly capable open-source AI is a complex issue, but the threshold of risks vs. benefits should be decided through a democratic process, not based on the whims of whichever AI company is most reckless or overconfident.
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Yoshua Bengio, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2024
Acting arrogant, overconfident or self-promotional can alienate interviewers.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
Both vessels were at the cutting edge of technology, both exemplars of safety in the eyes of their overconfident creators.
—Mark Harris, WIRED, 11 June 2024
This adulatory reaction is, in turn, causing Xi and other Chinese leaders to be dangerously overconfident.
—Tong Zhao, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2023
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Yoshua Bengio, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2024
Acting arrogant, overconfident or self-promotional can alienate interviewers.
—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
Both vessels were at the cutting edge of technology, both exemplars of safety in the eyes of their overconfident creators.
—Mark Harris, WIRED, 11 June 2024
This adulatory reaction is, in turn, causing Xi and other Chinese leaders to be dangerously overconfident.
—Tong Zhao, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overconfident
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Besides murder, the jury also found Coy guilty of felonious assault and reckless homicide.Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Coy, who was removed from his position in the Columbus Police Department shortly after the incident, faced charges of murder, reckless homicide and other offenses in which he was found guilty on Monday.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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These were just those courageous enough to answer truthfully.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Erika Sanders of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council hopes the center will force stakeholders and policymakers to ask tough questions that may be uncomfortable but courageous.La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2024
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Incredibly the only sitcom on this list, NBC’s Powerless was a brave, brief foray into what still is wildly uncharted territory in cape comic TV shows.Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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Unlike the crime thriller elements that are just OK, there’s energy, urgency and a convincing naturalism when the focus is on Yan and Sister taking brave and sometimes dangerous steps to reclaim their right to self-determination.Richard Kuipers, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
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In 1910, a quarter of a million people had spent 10 days swooning over the Los Angeles International Aviation Meet — the nation’s first daredevil airshow.Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
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Planes were first introduced into combat service during World War I, and the pioneering pilots who manned them became masters of the air, deploying daredevil maneuvers to outwit the enemy.Kinsey Gidick, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2024
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Overshadowing the endorsement was a foolhardy rhetorical flourish that insulted key voting blocs courted by the Republican nominee in his campaign against the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Grover Cleveland.Robert B. Mitchell / Made by History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
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An empathy gap is obvious in online commenters who suggest, for example, that flood victims earned their fate through the foolhardy choice to live near water, that earthquake victims shouldn’t have lived near fault lines, and so on.Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
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For those not so adventurous, take a commercial flight into Newark Airport in New Jersey.Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2024
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After a great summer in the box office following its 15-year anniversary re-release, the adventurous little girl returned to theaters on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.Emiliana Betancourt, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Overconfident.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overconfident. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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