envy

Once the envy of China's tech scene, the startup behind the artificial intelligence agent tool Manus has become an example of how rivalry between global powers can ensnare young entrepreneurs' ambitions.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Did wood-paneled station-wagon envy turn into Tesla full-self-driving envy?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Castle said that, while he might criticize some of the government agency’s numbers or methodologies, he believes in the importance of the USDA, saying it’s “still the envy of the world in this sector.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

That leaves “Beef,” Lee Sung Jin’s anthology series about enmity, envy and the multiple ways that blood orange juice can be made, as the presumptive front-runner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

By having our own electricity supply, my family has made itself the unexpected envy of the neighborhood.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

It’s also necessary to limit distortions to private-sector behavior, since private capital and competitive incentives drive the kind of innovation and financial firepower the rest of the world envies.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

Sam, now 25, says he envies those who do want to become parents because the experience "clearly has" beauty and love in it.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

If your social-worker friend envies your designer clothes, you don’t have to ditch your Prada for rags, but it’s probably better not to festoon your outfit with your biggest diamond.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

“Here is a woman who has never been particularly jealous of any other woman, realizing that she deeply envies this chair,” the film’s narrator, voiced by Melanie Griffith, says.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026

Miep often says she envies us because we have such peace and quiet here.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

The 67-year-old breast cancer survivor, who consults on sustainable textiles and runs a small farmers market, would never have her own property sprayed with pesticides, but admits to having envied neighbors who did.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

Perhaps the market shoppers I envied had simply made a few decisions before everything started charming them.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

Our parents are squarely boomers, and older ones, at that, and we grew up with a freedom that our younger cohorts envied but not the neglect that our older cousins complained of.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

Once Upon a Time’s owner Maureen Palacios envied the slumbering cat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025

Sometimes he envied the girl all her pretty little dreams.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

It’s during the voice-over when Henry recalls as a boy envying the wiseguys who hung out at the pizza parlor and taxi stand across the street from his home.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2022

And I wished them well, not envying the uphill battle they were undertaking in a ruthless industry that probably cared little for sitter issues or parent-teacher conferences.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2020

“You shouldn’t be envying those other people,” Siegel says of my depression over lacking a social bubble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2020

Now both my kids are in college, and it’s way too late to install anything like that now, but I find myself envying my friends who continue to know where their children are.

From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2019

I couldn’t help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles