material goods
Example Sentences
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About one-third pointed to spending on experiences, and 13% chose spending on material goods.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 21, 2025
Giving Tuesday’s arrival days after Thanksgiving and Black Friday snaps us out of the funk brought on by consumption of food and material goods at peak levels.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2023
As Bob Batchelor wrote in his paper "Advertising in the 1920s," most Americans both had more financial success than they had in the previous decade and increasingly equated material goods with personal success.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2023
In their 1972 book, “The Limits to Growth,” the researchers warned that unless humankind changed the way it used and consumed material goods on a global scale, civilization would likely collapse before 2070.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2022
The economic changes making material goods cheaper have forced businesses to seek out new opportunities so that they now market to groups they once ignored.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
