status seeking
Example Sentences
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Still, findings are limited since the study comprises a group of mostly white women of high socioeconomic status seeking fertility care.
From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024
In short, owning an NFT combines traditional Veblenesque status seeking with a 21st-century icing of crypto-cool.
From Slate • Apr. 14, 2021
The game of status seeking, organized around committees, is played in roughly the same fashion in Africa, in America and in the Soviet Union.
From Time Magazine Archive
Snobbery, status seeking, selfimportance, the acquisition of consumer goods, materialism �everything, in short, that tends to repress the natural piety of men.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hitting hard at pretentious commencements, big-time football and marching bands that "serve merely as public entertainment," Conant snorts that all such status seeking is utterly without "sound educational reason."
From Time Magazine Archive
