as in complacency
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Even after taking Microsoft public in 1986 and landing on a Fortune cover that touted his influx of wealth, Gates was reluctant to celebrate his accomplishments — or even mark important company milestones, fearing complacency.—
Tom Huddleston Jr.,
CNBC,
3 Feb. 2025 -
This is a race with immense economic and geopolitical stakes, and complacency is not an option.—
Emil Sayegh,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 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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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
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Megalopolis posits a world of clueless liberal self-satisfaction, missing every point of contemporary alertness to ongoing lawfare and sedition.—
Armond White,
National Review,
4 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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Soapstone tops the bespoke vanity with hardware from Rejuvenation.—
Elizabeth Fazzare,
Architectural Digest,
17 Feb. 2025
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Daniel Petroni Photography The primary suite bathroom features twin vanities, side-by-side showers encased in a glass cube and a black bathtub under a crystal chandelier at its center.—
Ray Parisi,
CNBC,
7 Feb. 2025
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Edward is karmically punished for his hubris and manipulations when the fiancé of his blind daughter, Ivy, is stabbed nearly to death by a developmentally disabled young man who was secretly in love with Ivy, necessitating sending her on a journey over the wall to fetch lifesaving medicine.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
8 Aug. 2024
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The inauguration of Donald Trump evidenced hubris in dealing with his American adversaries that is less convincing when turned on his foreign enemies.—
Richard E. Vatz,
Baltimore Sun,
26 Jan. 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 28 Feb. 2025.
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