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confident: I decided to go fishing last week, and did my research on the lake and weather conditions.  I was confident that we'd catch something that day.
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We decided to go fishing last week.
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Did you catch anything?
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No!  And I was so confident that we would!
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Did you at least have fun?
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We did!  And some of the research work that we did let us experiment more than normal.