bunker mentality

Example Sentences

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Now that I think about it, I might have a kind of bunker mentality when it comes to gas prices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

"The banks are under almost a bunker mentality right now. They are getting hit from a lot of different places," said Todd Phillips, a professor at Georgia State University.

From Reuters • Nov. 17, 2023

A nation that likes to think of itself as being a city on a hill has often adopted a bunker mentality.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2021

Sure, the avarice and bunker mentality vis-a-vis the rest of Southern California remained.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2020

David told Rolling Stone years later that Louis-Dreyfus was “bright, charming — striking, actually — and she had a great disposition, which, considering the bunker mentality that was ‘SNL’ at the time, wasn’t easy.

From Washington Post • May 23, 2018