complacent
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"But it's more a personal thing. I don't want to be complacent."
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
It suggests that the second group is complacent and established, and the first takes advantage of their laziness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Zack Polanski, the Green Party candidate, told BBC London he was "feeling confident or I wouldn't have put my hat in the ring in the first place, but I'm not complacent".
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
What’s astonishing after the events of the past couple of months is not how fearful Wall Street is, but how complacent.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
He wished she would not be so complacent about it.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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