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confidence in the future (bookworm); confident about the future (We are confident about the future. OCD. José Eduardo dos Santos emerged from a meeting in Gabon on March 1 confident about the future. A consumer spending spree demonstrated that Canadians were more confident about the future. BBOY. Alexander Demidov); sense of security (Anglophile); confidence about the future (They are full of confidence about the future. LCDT. optimistically: In a way that shows hope and confidence about the future. ODE. Two factors did so: first, belief in the Asian miracle was widespread, bolstering confidence about the region's future; and second, this optimism–along with the relaxation of government restrictions against foreign investment (usually referred to as "capital controls")–generated huge inflows of overseas funds as outside investors tried to profit from the miracle. BBOY Alexander Demidov) |
