complacency
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But Grande does perpetuate a silence, complacency, and enabling by painting genuine concern as gossipy chatter.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
But Timothy Ravasi, a local marine scientist, warned against complacency.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
After an initial splurge on travel and entertainment, retirees are often lulled into a sense of complacency because their spending tends to decrease during the first decade after leaving the workforce.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
England stemmed the haemorrhaging of points at the other end, however - perhaps helped by some understandable Springbok complacency - and briefly crowbarred their way back into the contest.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
The rudder in her work, and in her thinking, is this aversion to, and constant vigilance against, easy complacencies and groupthink.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2018
“Our contexts are not the same, our struggles are not the same, and so our rebellions and complacencies and conformities and compromises cannot be compared.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2017
The financial crisis taught us that long-held assumptions and complacencies can and will fall apart in a subprime minute.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 27, 2012
George Eliot, who tried to learn comedy from Dickens but didn't quite have the ear for it, is forever shaking us out of our complacencies.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2010
It has not the usual qualities of the reverie, for it does not hover about our personal complacencies and humiliations.
From The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by James Harvey Robinson
Vocabulary lists containing complacency
The Great Gatsby
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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