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confidently

/ˈkɑnfɪdəntli/ adverb B2
  1. In a confident manner; with confidence; with strong assurance; positively. · Alice confidently stepped up on the platform to give her maiden speech as CEO.
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With steady gaze he awaited confidently the moment for administering the restorative.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 207 · C1
“I have now in my hands,” my companion said, confidently, “all the threads which have formed such a tangle.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 70 · B2
Gregson, of Scotland Yard, are both engaged upon the case, and it is confidently anticipated that these well-known officers will speedily throw light upon the matter.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 55 · B2
It has been a case for intellectual deduction, but when this original intellectual deduction is confirmed point by point by quite a number of independent incidents, then the subjective becomes objective and we can say confidently that we have reached our goal.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 66 · B2

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