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
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
It felt good to use all of one’s muscles, with the sun at one’s back, and there was simple gratification in building up mounds of stone and lime.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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
Ethics is about fundamental right and wrong, and moral responsibilities to others, not just religious belief, legal rights, financial obligations, or self gratifications.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2017
Let us not fail to see, that to this end the individual selfishness, or, if so they must be called, the holy gratifications of human nature, must be sacrificed and subdued.
From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes
Vocabulary lists containing gratification
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