envy

During the years of our supposed economic captivity, the American economy became the envy of the world.

The effects will undermine the competitiveness of companies that were once the envy of the world as foreign manufacturers outperform them and continue to chip away at U.S. market share.

Our universities are the envy of the world.

We have little sympathy for its ideological content, yet we can’t help but envy how the Right has spent decades building an alternative media sphere — one with many strengths the Left lacks.

During the years of our supposed economic captivity, the American economy became the “envy of the world.”