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Noun
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With Marxism tainted by its aggressive materialism, and mere democratic socialism so mere, anarchism could be imagined as a series of defiant spiritual acts.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025 -
Catholicism offers ritual without the tedium of rationality; anarchism offers revolutionary action against inequality without the taint of materialism, the prospect of personal gain.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Critics of this alignment of the wealthy argue that Trump’s policies thus align less with economic populism to help the average man and more with corporate greed to help these elites.—
Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Her concern over both the animals and the big picture, not to mention her frustration and anger over what legacies of long-grift greed have wrought, offers the tiniest beacon of feeling in a film preoccupied with teeing up some frankly unimpressive carnage.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The public's reaction to his killing has highlighted the avarice and inequality that many Americans believe is at the root of the country's health care system, Axios' Ivana Saric writes.—
Sareen Habeshian,
Axios,
11 Dec. 2024
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In this coming era—during which fear, corruption, and avarice will stand in prominence—gentleness, morality, and reason must be cherished in whatever form they can be found.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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These factions would seem to be holiday rivals of a sort, like people who can’t get enough of all Christmas and the camp bemoaning its commercialism.—
Colin Fleming,
New York Daily News,
14 Feb. 2025
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This is an age of television contracts and commercialism and Musiala, less an outstanding player more a uniquely special one, is invaluable within that context.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Or consider the explorers who left a cold and hungry Europe in search of tropical riches, only to realize that their own rapacity could quickly exhaust the bounty of an island paradise.—
Deborah R. Coen,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Feb. 2014
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Adjacent to the Gold Room was the Bravo Bazaar, a mall of real commercial rapacity.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
17 Nov. 2023
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Pilgrimage, though couched in spiritual aims, often bordered on sheer cupidity.—
Aatish Taseer,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2023
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To cupidity, and beyond!—
Kyle Smith,
WSJ,
16 June 2022
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“Possessiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/possessiveness. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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