entitlement
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The difference shapes whether you see success as an entitlement or as yours to create.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Selina Flavius, from the charity Widowed and Young, says that after her fiance died, she would have liked the legal entitlement to have been involved in his funeral planning, as well as bereavement support payments.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
But the DNA of the Barbary wars exists throughout American military history, a cocktail of entitlement, bravado and hypocrisy flavored with desperate violence.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
Down: He has a sense of entitlement most of the other characters don’t have.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
The character has to project entitlement, a whiff of corrosive self-regard.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
That meant that through one's career, we earned entitlements to a decent pension set at a fixed proportion of salary.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
Some 95% of that transfer is complete, but negotiations over final entitlements have been stuck for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
However, the IMB said at the end of its reporting year period, the prison was still "non-compliant with minimum clothing entitlements".
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
More than half of the calls have been about pay and other contractual entitlements while in the war zone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
We cut $255 billion in spending, including entitlements, in over 340 separate budget items.
From State of the Union Address by Clinton, William Jefferson
Vocabulary lists containing entitlement
A Word's-Eye View of the Primetime GOP Debate (Aug. 6, 2015)
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Top Ten Most Relevant Words from the Third Republican Debate, October 28, 2015
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U.S. Government - Middle School and High School
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