complacency
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England stemmed the haemorrhaging of points at the other end, however - perhaps helped by some understandable Springbok complacency - and briefly crowbarred their way back into the contest.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
BIS notes that “sentiment has also been a major driver of valuations” and a “post-pandemic exuberance” has generated an air of complacency among investors.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
For the typical borrower, this complacency compounds to more than $78,000 over the life of the loan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The truth is that the ADA’s action only validated the editorial’s exhortation to scientists to speak out forcefully: “We can no longer afford complacency and fear. We must all act now!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Are we willing to tolerate ignorance and complacency in matters that affect the entire human family?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
Oh, Ruth, I love that little bird-box, spite of all its spunky beliefs and twittering complacencies.
From Bylow Hill by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)
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The Great Gatsby
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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