greed
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Women rarely get to show ambition or greed, and she does that openly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Sending the father-of-two to prison for 38 months, the judge told him he had engaged in "large-scale commercial fraud" driven by "pure greed", despite knowing the likely sentence which awaited him if caught.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 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
It seemed to me that greed was just as much of a prison as poverty, only worse.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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