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complacency

noun as in contentment

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He highlighted the home's "complacency about risk" and "false sense of security" in relying on the boat hirers to carry out safety checks.

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“There was a sense of complacency in the market for the past decade that lending is risk-free,” said Ali Meli, founder and chief investment officer of Monachil Capital Partners.

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The author argues that First Brands’ collapse represents a broader pattern of market complacency and investor recklessness characteristic of late-stage bull markets, where healthy skepticism erodes and investors fail to conduct proper due diligence.

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The one concern Friedman said he did not have about building a repeat winner was complacency.

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That was precisely the wishful thinking that lulled Israel into complacency before Oct.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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