retail therapy

Example Sentences

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After all, if Americans are stressed, what better solution than retail therapy?

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

But no one escapes the brutal moral accounting, not even Jackie, after she suffers a tragedy no amount of retail therapy will ever make right.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2025

To make themselves feel better, they might engage in retail therapy, Jack said.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2025

An international student seeking retail therapy after exams.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2024

She always says that she’s having a bad month and she’ll make it up later, and she seems genuinely really stressed about money, but also she’s been doing a good amount of retail therapy.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2023