vanity
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“I work in fashion, where vanity is very high,” said Auth, 33, a senior account manager for Wolford, a luxury lingerie and hosiery brand.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
"Unfortunately, what we've seen in the recent past is a growing trend of people using it for vanity reasons," he says.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
Her performance in “Vladimir” completely eschewed vanity and instead fixates on what makes this woman go off the rails.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026
Many of these high-profile attempts to foster serious conversation through art drowned it in vanity.
From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026
The way African American women wear their hair has often been about much more than vanity.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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