gratification

While one could read this as a testament to everlasting love, I find it most moving as a bit of well-earned gratification.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Most fans of baseball, delayed gratification and compounding interest know about Bobby Bonilla Day, an annual acknowledgment of the dawn of deferred contracts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 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

I think delayed gratification is undervalued in your columns.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

A puny arrow connects the filler who with a gap right next door, and the reader gets instant gratification: no sooner does she come across who than she knows what it’s doing.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

Maybe it had something to do with a dawning sense that I was moving past the delayed gratifications of motherhood, past the time of putting off what I wanted to do.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2018

But what will posterity think of a British minister's violating a treaty for such paltry gratifications?

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne