gratification
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Gen Z is known for giving priority to experiences that give us immediate gratification over long-term financial well-being.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The result: instant gratification for those searching for new business ideas, and a beginner business plan for addressing them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
At Liverpool, the belief is they have been sensible and responsible with a view to deferred gratification in most cases, but the wage structure is currently under review.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
In the meantime, it doesn’t hurt to mull over other ways to help foster an appreciation for delayed gratification — in ways you’d be able to see and appreciate while you’re alive.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
But anyhow there was uplift, and indeed it was observable, both in the resolute set of their faces and in the gratification that shone in their eyes.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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
Some gratifications still remained—for instance, the prospect of reading and of answering his mother-in-law's first letter, appealing for more money!
From The Daughter Pays by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
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