gratification

No longer just events where designers use trunks full of samples to sell preorders, many combine the instant gratification of off-the-rack shopping with exclusive locations—private homes, hotels, yachts—and free perks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

We want instant gratification, whether it’s a boost of dopamine from checking ETFs, or a sugar rush from eating candy.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

At Liverpool, the belief is they have been sensible and responsible with a view to deferred gratification in most cases, but the wage structure is currently under review.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Instant gratification from short video clips makes it hard for people—particularly kids—to understand how the present affects the future, according to a study.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

It felt good to use all of one’s muscles, with the sun at one’s back, and there was simple gratification in building up mounds of stone and lime.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

This kind of "caring" requires such little effort -- and the social gratifications are so instant -- that those quick, easy, cynical dismissals seem fair, penny for penny.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2017

Happiness is nothing but a continued pleasure, composed of separate gratifications; and as it is the object of all human exertions, we should abstain from no kind of pleasure.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various