complacent

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“We may have been in an environment where markets were a little more complacent with the need for energy within a portfolio of stocks.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Importantly, this new rally comes at the tail end of one of the most notable S&P 500/gold ratio declines, “suggesting markets are not complacent at all about geopolitical risks/concerns,” he says.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

Her mum said that because of this they had become "too complacent" about the illness.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

“We shouldn’t be complacent about accepting errors” from AI tools, Topol told me.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

These demands arose from the growing awareness that researchers had become entirely too complacent about the potent electrical and nuclear forces with which they were working.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik