gratification

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

“Instant gratification doesn’t have to run your life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 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

Financial products have been increasingly adding gamelike features that create competition or instant gratification to keep users hooked — and the latest example is a prepaid debit card with a “buy-now-pay-maybe” feature.

From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026

Meanwhile, to its intense gratification, Pennsylvania had also discovered oil—not only discovered it but devised ways to make it industrially useful.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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

Maybe it had something to do with a dawning sense that I was moving past the delayed gratifications of motherhood, past the time of putting off what I wanted to do.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2018

Eventually these experiences may be consciously generalized, and there may result a deliberate pursuit of the sympathetic gratifications.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams