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 diminishing returns of instant gratification might explain why catalogs are nearly always, according to trade publications and business journals, on the verge of a renaissance.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
In other words, Pokémon is an exercise in delayed gratification and acceptance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
To Lawrence’s gratification, the council also voted to spend up to $100,000 a year for the next two years to “stimulate” cyclotron-based research into cancer treatment around the country.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
This kind of "caring" requires such little effort -- and the social gratifications are so instant -- that those quick, easy, cynical dismissals seem fair, penny for penny.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2017
The unfortunate were despised and wretched; the fortunate were insecure and feverishly eager for gratifications.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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