greed
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"Our national heritage and environment must be safeguarded from greed and unnecessary destruction without public participation," he added.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Women rarely get to show ambition or greed, and she does that openly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
They are driven by human information processing — knowing how to weigh news as it arrives — and by fear, greed, panic, herd mentality and other emotions.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026
They’ve become monuments to corporate greed — zones of atrophy, boredom and total disempowerment.
From Salon • May 22, 2026
The reason may not be the greed of the movie industry in cashing in on the first film’s popularity, but simply another instance of regression to the mean.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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