gratification
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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
In her view, long-form videos - the kind you might find on YouTube - tend to be more educational and less harmful because they don't provide the instant gratification of short-form content.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
At its heart lies a theory Wagner drew from Schopenhauer, from Buddhism and from Christianity, that self-enlightenment, or personal redemption, is achieved by denying oneself gratification, resisting temptation and seeking an understanding of fellow-suffering.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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
The gratifications of schadenfreude are the same as they have always been, of course.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2019
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 Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie
Vocabulary lists containing gratification
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