complacency
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But Grande does perpetuate a silence, complacency, and enabling by painting genuine concern as gossipy chatter.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
"There was this complacency and failure to recognise that there's been a step change in extreme weather, and that this will continue because the globe continues to warm," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Ostensibly anchored to the dancefloor, it's a record that uses dance music to shake the listener out of complacency.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
That can breed complacency among fund directors and CEOs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
He was trying to lull us into complacency, but it would not work.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
The rudder in her work, and in her thinking, is this aversion to, and constant vigilance against, easy complacencies and groupthink.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2018
“Our contexts are not the same, our struggles are not the same, and so our rebellions and complacencies and conformities and compromises cannot be compared.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2017
The financial crisis taught us that long-held assumptions and complacencies can and will fall apart in a subprime minute.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 27, 2012
George Eliot, who tried to learn comedy from Dickens but didn't quite have the ear for it, is forever shaking us out of our complacencies.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2010
It would have been part of the joy, three months ago, to talk over his loving perception of Imogen's little foibles and childishnesses, to laugh, with a loving listener, over her little complacencies and pomposities.
From A Fountain Sealed by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Vocabulary lists containing complacency
The Great Gatsby
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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