as in complacency
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Noun
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Earnings estimates coming down The complacency around tariffs is dissipating, wrote CNBC’s Bob Pisani.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
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My years have granted me both perspective and the freedom to question more vigorously, push harder against accepted narratives, and challenge the complacency that too often surrounds discussions of racial progress.—
Lewis M. Rambo,
Twin Cities,
2 Mar. 2025
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Trump’s slogans—America First and Make America Great Again—embody the essence of populism, namely using ideology to advance a political program that is morally unconstrained and driven by collective egoism.—
BÁLINT MADLOVICS,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2025
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Psychological egoism is at play here, too, with Jimmy’s extreme emotional investment in getting Grace help.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
23 Oct. 2024
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Just as there’s no dramatic build-up to Maria landing the part, there’s no romance to the process of acting it, nor the slightest whiff of self-satisfaction in recreating iconic scenes.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
21 Mar. 2025
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Corporate leaders will be called upon to overcome self-satisfaction with progress made in the advancement of gender parity for women, especially those in senior and middle management.—
Michael Peregrine,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The 1960s-era egotism in that earlier vision was tempered.—
Bryan Walsh,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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Gratitude is the opposite of selfishness, egotism, avarice or narcissism.—
Armstrong Williams,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Nov. 2024
Noun
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The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.—
Isaac Butler,
The New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2023
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That’s the mantra for wide receivers, a group long known for their vainglory.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Sep. 2023
Noun
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Tiny Solar Homes The bathroom is nearby and contains a shower, vanity sink, and a flushing toilet.—
Adam Williams,
New Atlas,
13 Mar. 2025
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The resurgence of popular beauty looks of decades past comes at no surprise to those who grew up watching their mothers and grandmothers do their hair or paint their nails at their bathroom vanity.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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But there’s also a little bit of hubris and folly in these articles.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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In the process, Harrison’s play seems to equate the natural desire to survive, to feel and to matter — to discover, to mourn, to enjoy and create — with a kind of hubris that, like global warming, will lead inevitably to extinction.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
5 Feb. 2025
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But surely there must be a place for civil disobedience and protest that is sufficiently disruptive to rouse people from complacence.—
Yochai Benkler,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Apr. 2012
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The campaign used Ivancie’s complacence.—
oregonlive,
oregonlive,
1 Feb. 2022
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“Self-complacency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-complacency. Accessed 30 Mar. 2025.
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