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No wonder many in the US and Europe have begun questioning the underpinnings of capitalism—particularly its devotion to free markets and its faith in the power of economic growth to create prosperity and solve our problems.
CAPITALISM IS IN CRISIS. TO SAVE IT, WE NEED TO RETHINK ECONOMIC GROWTH.KATIE MCLEANOCTOBER 14, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
Members of the ARMY, the self-ascribed title for BTS fans, told Reuters last week that buying stock in Big Hit Entertainment was a sign of their devotion to the group.
FANS OF K-POP’S BTS ARE MOBILIZING ON A NEW PLATFORM: THE STOCK MARKETGRADY MCGREGORSEPTEMBER 28, 2020FORTUNE
When she asks the emperor whom she just saved to send her home and the court gasps in shock, the emperor informs the watching crowd that “devotion to family is an essential virtue.”
THE HISTORY OF MULAN, FROM A 6TH-CENTURY BALLAD TO THE LIVE-ACTION DISNEY MOVIECONSTANCE GRADYSEPTEMBER 4, 2020VOX
Their devotion to Holy Scripture, however, is highly selective.
HARRIS SHOULD MAKE PENCE’S BIGOTRY AN ISSUEJAMES DRISCOLLAUGUST 28, 2020WASHINGTON BLADE
Unfortunately, my overall lifestyle serves as a poor alibi for this level of athletic devotion.
THE SUBLIME AGONY OF HOT-WEATHER RUNNINGMARTIN FRITZ HUBERAUGUST 27, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINE
Bessires was included because he would never win it at any later date, but his doglike devotion made him a priceless subordinate.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
This has a warm though a thin soil, which must be highly favorable to the Vine to induce so exclusive a devotion to it.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEY
I must aspire to the agitating transports of self-devotion, in scenes of sacrifice and peril!
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTER
And now there was added to this devotion an element of indefinable anxiety which made its vigilance unceasing.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON
No man was likely to see Ramona with Alessandro without perceiving the rare quality of her devotion to him.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON
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WORDS RELATED TO DEVOTION

  • affliction
  • agonizing
  • agony
  • anguish
  • crucifixion
  • devotion
  • distress
  • mortification
  • ordeal
  • pain
  • persecution
  • sacrifice
  • self-immolation
  • self-sacrifice
  • torment
  • torture
  • unselfishness
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