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Recent Examples of materialism
The Roses stars Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch in a new spin on the same story, examining how status and materialism impact interpersonal relationships.
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Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Co-written with Jessica Cayne and Chris Rafetto, the track takes aim at materialism and the pressure to maintain appearances, even at the cost of one’s financial and mental well-being.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2025
Exactly, with a lot of the spiritual materialism that is slung around and filtered through skincare and things like that.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2025
And so celebrating the Renaissance became a way to pay respect to prosperity and materialism.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
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Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Co-written with Jessica Cayne and Chris Rafetto, the track takes aim at materialism and the pressure to maintain appearances, even at the cost of one’s financial and mental well-being.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 25 Aug. 2025
Exactly, with a lot of the spiritual materialism that is slung around and filtered through skincare and things like that.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2025
And so celebrating the Renaissance became a way to pay respect to prosperity and materialism.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for materialism
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Ironically, the film was about the dangers of commercialism, and the director reportedly added a long bedroom scene near the beginning displaying the actress’ nude backside to appease producers’ demands for more flesh.—
Lee Smith,
CNN Money,
28 Dec. 2025
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The runaway commercialism has only picked up speed.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
19 Dec. 2025
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The president is a man of low character, driven by greed, insecurity and revenge.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Jan. 2026
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The themes of poverty, greed and love, that’s the part that the viewers are putting into their enjoyment of the movie.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
9 Jan. 2026
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In the film, Brack’s attraction to Hedda, investment in her material future, and his familiarity with her father are all underlined, and by the end feel like a mounting pressure of desire and possessiveness directed at her.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
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Wright is magnetic, walking a fine line between maternal concern and suffocating possessiveness.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Certainly there’s a long and distinguished tradition of associating Jewish arrivistes with entrepreneurialism, avarice, and clannishness.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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Advertisement For years, Khan condemned graft and personal avarice.—
Rafia Zakaria,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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Following too closely in its protagonist’s footsteps, The Queen of Versailles presents only two options — tough but spiritually fulfilling material deprivation or unconstrained acquisitiveness.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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People in the comments shared in the woman’s frustration, agreeing that her mother's greediness needs to be addressed.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
5 Oct. 2025
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When kids didn’t withdraw, it was sometimes seen as greediness.—
Mary Frances Ruskell,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
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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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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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Adjacent to the Gold Room was the Bravo Bazaar, a mall of real commercial rapacity.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
17 Nov. 2023
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“Materialism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/materialism. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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