entitlement
Example Sentences
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People who confuse reasonable limitations on their actions with violations of their rights develop a sense of entitlement and inevitable disappointment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
You see his demands, from where I’m sitting, as entitlement because he fails to understand that your nest egg did not come easy.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026
On the spending side, they will likely need to revisit the structure of major entitlement programs.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
West, one of the grande dames of the movement, got her start at Seattle alt-weekly the Stranger and spent years excoriating fatphobia, online misogyny, and male entitlement for the ur-millennial-feminist site Jezebel.
From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026
That’s entitlement: his mother permits that casual incivility because she wants him to learn to assert himself with people in positions of authority.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing entitlement
A Word's-Eye View of the Primetime GOP Debate (Aug. 6, 2015)
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Top Ten Most Relevant Words from the Third Republican Debate, October 28, 2015
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U.S. Government - Middle School and High School
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