complacency
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For Aurora, the widening of the bombing campaign and the prospect of boots on the ground remain key risks to all of the market’s calmness and complacency.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
This was a measure of how low defence and security had fallen in the nation's priorities - and a measure, too, of the complacency into which much of Europe had sunk.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
Mr. Mahajan’s “The Complex” is an anguished, intelligent study of ambition decoupled from principles, and of the complacency and fear that allows it to thrive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
But that doesn’t mean complacency is the answer.
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026
Stamped out not merely by fear but by being forgotten, by the complacency of the world around her.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
Vocabulary lists containing complacency
The Great Gatsby
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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