material goods
Example Sentences
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Recent cultural shifts in spending habits that give priority to experiences and personal accomplishments over material goods are helping to drive interest in this extreme-adventure niche.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
About one-third pointed to spending on experiences, and 13% chose spending on material goods.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 21, 2025
We can measure its realization in our own lives in a variety of ways, and often we tend to do so in terms of material goods.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2025
Giving Tuesday’s arrival days after Thanksgiving and Black Friday snaps us out of the funk brought on by consumption of food and material goods at peak levels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
The economic changes making material goods cheaper have forced businesses to seek out new opportunities so that they now market to groups they once ignored.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
