gratification
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In a world of instant gratification, it teaches perseverance through early practices and aching muscles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Someone who places lots of bets using prediction-market apps craves instant gratification.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The well of inspiration had run dry; a problem he sees with many food creators in the era of fast-paced social media and instant gratification.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
“Instant gratification doesn’t have to run your life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
Ifemelu felt a small gratification to hear, later, Aunty Uju shouting on the phone.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Such support can come with deprivations as well as gratifications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
It is taking individual responsibility rather than indulging in the fleeting gratifications of individualism.
From Salon ● May 14, 2023
In addition, Afzal had allegedly given gratifications totalling about $165,000 to other individuals on multiple occasions as “inducements or rewards for them to place orders with KPI for the supply of bunker fuel.”
From Reuters ● Oct. 20, 2021
Leda Caruso, like Viv a professor of literature, experiences the anguish and occasional gratifications of parenthood in a more melodramatic key in “The Lost Daughter,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s adaptation of an early novel by Elena Ferrante.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2021
But gratifications are short; while appetites are long.
From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William De Witt Hyde
Vocabulary lists containing gratification
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