complacency
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“There’s a lot of complacency around AI,” Catrambone said, while adding he’s not negative on the theme.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
She warned against complacency from policymakers too eager to put all their eggs in the AI basket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
But Grande does perpetuate a silence, complacency, and enabling by painting genuine concern as gossipy chatter.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 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
The courtroom seemed to feel, with some complacency and some disappointment, that it was his great good luck to be let off so easily.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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
George Eliot, who tried to learn comedy from Dickens but didn't quite have the ear for it, is forever shaking us out of our complacencies.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2010
From all soft, easeful beliefs and silken complacencies the last Irish poet breaks away in a book of insurrections.
From Imaginations and Reveries by George William Russell
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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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