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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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Every February and September, when the event takes place, critics and showgoers bemoan that the entire affair is strangled by commercialism and limping toward irrelevance.—
Ana Karina Zatarain,
New Yorker,
19 Sep. 2025
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Such a move would never be tolerated or accepted by a footballing environment that remains deeply suspicious of commercialism and militantly on guard against any move in that direction.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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There’s no tragic backstory here, no traumatic childhood event that turned Murdaugh into a killer, no motivators past greed.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
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This specific quiet theater of greed, luck, and deceit is likely over.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
24 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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There’s a certain irony in China’s possessiveness over its Labubu IP.—
Ramishah Maruf,
CNN Money,
24 Aug. 2025
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Mammon, the lord of avarice and demon god of greed and money.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
20 Sep. 2025
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Mandel plays a former Russia astronaut, whose avarice gets the better of him, while Perlman’s character is an older man struggling to cope with harsh terrain and sub-zero temperatures.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
1 Sep. 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 8 Nov. 2025.
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