consumerism
Example Sentences
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But impersonators, academics and even working Santas agree: Americans’ embrace of the Grinch in 2025 goes far beyond consumerism.
From Los Angeles Times
Some fans and critics of the singer are questioning whether Swift is overexposed or if her recent work is feeding a culture of consumerism.
From Los Angeles Times
Japan has a tiny Christian majority and Christmas is a secular festival of full-bore consumerism complete with Santa, gifts and streetlights.
From Barron's
But mobilizing patriotic consumerism also carries risks that official sanctions don’t.
Chip Colwell, an anthropologist and the author of “So Much Stuff,” a history of consumerism, thinks that tariffs will cause people to buy less in the short term.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
