complacency

But Grande does perpetuate a silence, complacency, and enabling by painting genuine concern as gossipy chatter.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

"There was this complacency and failure to recognise that there's been a step change in extreme weather, and that this will continue because the globe continues to warm," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

Ostensibly anchored to the dancefloor, it's a record that uses dance music to shake the listener out of complacency.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Araki made the film in part, he says, to reach out to a younger generation and shake them out of their digital-age complacency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

It is essential, then, to keep one's attention focused on the present; to guard against any complacency creeping in on account of what one may have achieved in the past.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

This sort of thing was not to the taste of Wordsworth or Southey, any more than their special complacencies were venerable to the humor of Christopher North.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various