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complacency

[kuhm-pley-suhn-see] / kəmˈpleɪ sən si /
NOUN
contentment
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But Grande does perpetuate a silence, complacency, and enabling by painting genuine concern as gossipy chatter.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

"There was this complacency and failure to recognise that there's been a step change in extreme weather, and that this will continue because the globe continues to warm," he told AFP.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

After an initial splurge on travel and entertainment, retirees are often lulled into a sense of complacency because their spending tends to decrease during the first decade after leaving the workforce.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Ostensibly anchored to the dancefloor, it's a record that uses dance music to shake the listener out of complacency.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

The rudder in her work, and in her thinking, is this aversion to, and constant vigilance against, easy complacencies and groupthink.

From New York Times Jul. 18, 2018

“Our contexts are not the same, our struggles are not the same, and so our rebellions and complacencies and conformities and compromises cannot be compared.”

From The New Yorker Apr. 6, 2017

The financial crisis taught us that long-held assumptions and complacencies can and will fall apart in a subprime minute.

From BusinessWeek Feb. 27, 2012

Thereafter he campaigned tirelessly, and secretly, on behalf of political prisoners in the Eastern bloc and turned his public scorn against what he discerned as the hypocrisies and complacencies of the British left-wing intelligentsia.

From The Guardian Apr. 25, 2010

This sort of thing was not to the taste of Wordsworth or Southey, any more than their special complacencies were venerable to the humor of Christopher North.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various




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