How to Use complacency in a Sentence

complacency

noun

• The public was lulled into complacency.
• That complacency takes a toll—even among Vanguard investors, who tend to be cautious.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
• Markets watchers are even less tolerant of the evils of complacency.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 4 May 2021
• And in two of the groups, their complacency grew with familiarity with the system.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2024
• This can create a culture of complacency where employees feel their opinions don’t matter.
  — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• The vaccination program lost steam as complacency set in.
  — New York Times, 1 May 2021
• The Warm Up — a reaction to complacency and a desire to push himself further as an artist.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2021
• But the Great Ones combat complacency with an uncommon focus on getting even better.
  — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• And then, in these circles, there was obviously a form of complacency, of omertà, of habits that had been established and that are intolerable.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
• The deal was accompanied by multiple rounds of layoffs, as well as a growing sense of complacency that made many employees’ lives difficult.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
• Experts say that complacency, and a loosening of restrictions in a bid to boost economic activity, may have also played a part in the recent surges.
  — Time, 14 May 2021
• But lulled into complacency by the declining rates of infection last year, Modi acted as if the battle had been won and made a series of critical mistakes.
  — Meenakshi Narula Ahamed, CNN, 1 May 2021
• This isn’t a time for complacency and the faith that a bad performance fades on its own.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 28 June 2024
• The second set of eyes gets better, and the risk of complacency also goes up.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• The indictment of Sun shows, once again, the risks of such complacency.
  — The Editors, National Review, 5 Sep. 2024
• But shrugging it off is not the same thing as complacency.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 12 Dec. 2022
• Stage four Years six to 10 are what the Spencer Stuart researchers call the complacency trap.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 30 May 2024
• This is not a time for complacency: A lot is riding on what the next City Council will do.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 15 June 2021
• As the rain lessens in Vermont, Scott cautioned against a false sense of complacency.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 11 July 2023
• World events played a part in the expansion of the office, but so did complacency.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2021
• Given the stakes, complacency is a greater risk than alarmism.
  — Graham Allison, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
• Harrell said his goal now is not to let complacency set in.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 4 July 2021
• These emotions are meant to shake us out of complacency, to sound the alarm to the very real crisis before us.
  — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
• But stability can bring complacency, which seems to be a big part of what The Acolyte is about.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• But there is also a risk of complacency if board members stay in place too long.
  — Stuart Jackson, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• But while their stories should give us hope, they can’t be cause for complacency.
  — Tom Steyer, Fortune, 28 May 2024
• Parsons, speaking at a news conference, said there was no room for complacency in the wake of the Olympics.
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2021
• And is there a complacency issue that Trump has to worry about?
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2024
• But what’s essential is to keep people out of harm’s way and to keep them from complacency.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2023
• If there’s a sense of urgency around the team it has been well hidden under a cloak of complacency.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024