as in avarice
an intense selfish desire for wealth or possessions
don't let greed for riches control you
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Recent Examples of greed
Americans deserve to know if those sky-high prices are the result of out-of-control corporate greed.
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Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 9 May 2025
Their deaths were not only avoidable but were also the direct result of the greed and indifference of smugglers who exploited them.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
Meanwhile, a few PC vendors are blaming greed for the high prices, pointing to GPU distributors demanding more amid low supplies, especially for the RTX 5090.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 7 May 2025
However, the professionalization of content creation also augmented social platforms’ business objectives, as corporate greed inevitably maximized profits at the expense of both users and creatives.
—Solo Ceesay, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2025
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Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 9 May 2025
Their deaths were not only avoidable but were also the direct result of the greed and indifference of smugglers who exploited them.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
Meanwhile, a few PC vendors are blaming greed for the high prices, pointing to GPU distributors demanding more amid low supplies, especially for the RTX 5090.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 7 May 2025
However, the professionalization of content creation also augmented social platforms’ business objectives, as corporate greed inevitably maximized profits at the expense of both users and creatives.
—Solo Ceesay, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for greed
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These are ambition and avarice; the love of power, and the love of money.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
1 May 2025
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The public's reaction to his killing has highlighted the avarice and inequality that many Americans believe is at the root of the country's health care system, Axios' Ivana Saric writes.—
Sareen Habeshian,
Axios,
11 Dec. 2024
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In recent books, French has borrowed elements of the western genre to explore corporate rapacity in the era of climate change and looked at life in a small Irish village with the ear to both insider and outsider.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Or consider the explorers who left a cold and hungry Europe in search of tropical riches, only to realize that their own rapacity could quickly exhaust the bounty of an island paradise.—
Deborah R. Coen,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Feb. 2014
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Tablets: Secrets of the Clay by Dunya Mikhail Sue Halpern For the Love of Money Sarah Wynn-Williams’s damning memoir of working at Facebook exposes the predatory cupidity of the company’s executives.—
Rachel Nolan,
The New York Review of Books,
9 May 2025
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Pilgrimage, though couched in spiritual aims, often bordered on sheer cupidity.—
Aatish Taseer,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2023
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Prosecutors claimed the killings were driven by the brothers’ desire for a multi-million dollar inheritance.—
Hanna Park,
CNN Money,
14 May 2025
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One which has surrendered the desire for tidy endings, resuming my commitment to speak, and resist.—
Sarah Aziza,
People.com,
14 May 2025
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By voting, supporters not only champion their favorite couples but also fuel real-world solutions to hunger and environmental degradation.—
Partner Content,
Variety,
8 May 2025
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Bakeries and food kitchens have shut down, hunger is widespread and children have suffered malnourishment, the U.N. says.—
Daniel Estrin,
NPR,
5 May 2025
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Better to be parched with thirst, better to pray for pain, pain, and more pain, than to feel empty, and to feel so without truly feeling at all.—
Peter Nguyen,
The Conversation,
30 Apr. 2025
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But with that life comes the eternal dark thirst, too.—
Jordan Crucchiola,
Vulture,
26 Apr. 2025
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Smith said the skin can undergo further harm, as many are often undernourished thanks to the decrease in appetite from the drugs.—
Emily Burns,
Footwear News,
7 May 2025
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The Danger Within The biggest threat that Rogoff sees to the dollar’s future is the lack of appetite to reverse the growth in US debt.—
Kevin Coldiron,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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“Greed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/greed. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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