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Recent Examples of materialism
Research by Tim Kasser and Jean Twenge showed that materialism among 12th graders increased over time, peaking in the late 1980s and early 1990s with Generation X, and then stayed at those historically high levels among millennials.
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Ron Lieber, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
The locals did indicate that American soldiers had left a remarkable testament to materialism behind that would shape modern Greenland consumer culture—Sears, Roebuck and Company catalogs!
—Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Born into a wealthy family in 1896 in Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture, Yamaguchi joined a society that renounced materialism at a young age, and its teachings included walking door-to-door offering menial labor in exchange for food.
—Nathan Pugh, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
As a teen, Willis started reading Beat Generation literature, getting absorbed in Jack Kerouac and other writers who rejected culture built on materialism.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2024
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Ron Lieber, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
The locals did indicate that American soldiers had left a remarkable testament to materialism behind that would shape modern Greenland consumer culture—Sears, Roebuck and Company catalogs!
—Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
Born into a wealthy family in 1896 in Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture, Yamaguchi joined a society that renounced materialism at a young age, and its teachings included walking door-to-door offering menial labor in exchange for food.
—Nathan Pugh, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
As a teen, Willis started reading Beat Generation literature, getting absorbed in Jack Kerouac and other writers who rejected culture built on materialism.
—Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for materialism
Noun
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Rock music’s popularity had skyrocketed in the wake of the British Invasion, and many folk devotees considered its commercialism to be a threat to their communal values.—
Grant Wong,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Dec. 2024
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Although, the message of the 25-minute feature was not to get too caught up in holiday commercialism.—
Frank Witsil,
Detroit Free Press,
30 Nov. 2024
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People are really unhappy with CEOs, corporate greed, etc.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
24 Jan. 2025
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The Righteous Gemstones tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed, and charitable work.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
23 Jan. 2025
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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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Its third and latest season offers a sharp dissection of how work can become an obsession, the false promises of ethical investing, and the endless cycle of avarice to which stockbrokers (and perhaps the rest of us) belong.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
12 Dec. 2024
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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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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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“Materialism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/materialism. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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