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Recent Examples of materialism
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.
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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
In the 1980s, this was the Gordon Gekko Wall Street era … a time when people were celebrating materialism, were celebrating consumption.
—Terry Gross, NPR, 17 July 2025
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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
In the 1980s, this was the Gordon Gekko Wall Street era … a time when people were celebrating materialism, were celebrating consumption.
—Terry Gross, NPR, 17 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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This obsession with efficiency and greed — that’s what’s driving AI.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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In his new book, 1929, Sorkin takes the most famous stock crash in history and turns it into a thrilling saga of greed, folly, and despair that resonates with present times.—
Jim Kelly,
Air Mail,
11 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 22 Oct. 2025.
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