greedy
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"Get back to your boxing, you're getting too greedy, trying to land and getting caught," Verhoeven's trainer Peter Fury warned his man.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
Print and cinema’s strings are being pulled by the grubby, greedy hands of executives who care far more about money and expediency than art and process.
From Salon • May 1, 2026
The old axiom is to be greedy when others are fearful.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
He said for some, the suspended state of the market could be an opportunity, pointing to a famous Warren Buffett quote: “Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
Could a name make you greedy like mine made me small?
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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