greedy
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"Get back to your boxing, you're getting too greedy, trying to land and getting caught," Verhoeven's trainer Peter Fury warned his man.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
That disloyal, greedy kid at the center of college football’s first apparent holdout?
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Print and cinema’s strings are being pulled by the grubby, greedy hands of executives who care far more about money and expediency than art and process.
From Salon • May 1, 2026
The old axiom is to be greedy when others are fearful.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
It’s down-to-earth, it’s simple, it’s untrue, and it’s familiar enough and trivial enough to be understood and loved by our greedy, nervous, illiterate sponsors.’”
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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