gratification
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In a world of instant gratification, it teaches perseverance through early practices and aching muscles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
In other words, Pokémon is an exercise in delayed gratification and acceptance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
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
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
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
His social and literary gratifications had been increased by the increase of his leisure.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
Vocabulary lists containing gratification
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