gratification
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In a world of instant gratification, it teaches perseverance through early practices and aching muscles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The well of inspiration had run dry; a problem he sees with many food creators in the era of fast-paced social media and instant gratification.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
“Instant gratification doesn’t have to run your life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
Is he willing to make sacrifices for the long-term good, or is he susceptible to the pull of short-term gratification?
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
Meanwhile, to its intense gratification, Pennsylvania had also discovered oil—not only discovered it but devised ways to make it industrially useful.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Such support can come with deprivations as well as gratifications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
It is taking individual responsibility rather than indulging in the fleeting gratifications of individualism.
From Salon ● May 14, 2023
In addition, Afzal had allegedly given gratifications totalling about $165,000 to other individuals on multiple occasions as “inducements or rewards for them to place orders with KPI for the supply of bunker fuel.”
From Reuters ● Oct. 20, 2021
The gratifications of schadenfreude are the same as they have always been, of course.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2019
The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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