gratification

In other words, Pokémon is an exercise in delayed gratification and acceptance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

Fresh from the oven, a biscuit is a creature of immediate gratification — meant to be split open with impatient fingers and painted with melting butter.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

Is he willing to make sacrifices for the long-term good, or is he susceptible to the pull of short-term gratification?

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

I think delayed gratification is undervalued in your columns.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 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

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

The enemies whom he thrust aside, or cowed into silence, could whisper at opportune moments, and their whispers did him no good; while sometimes they could secure gratifications for themselves decidedly worth having.

From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by LeSueur, William Dawson