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Recent Examples of materialism
In fact, what materialism can’t adequately capture is experience itself.
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Christopher Beha, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
The institution is a cultural first responder that documents the effects of materialism, conformity, and mechanization.
—Gioia Woods, Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
The book describes the transition of the fictional Grinch, who had focused on the misunderstanding of materialism but was transformed by love and holiday spirit into a helpful, caring being who became part of the community.
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
Beverly Keel once published an article in The Tennessean that was a letter asking Santa to help our culture move beyond materialism and consumerism to the deeper meaning of Christmas.
—Clay Stauffer, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Dec. 2025
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Christopher Beha, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
The institution is a cultural first responder that documents the effects of materialism, conformity, and mechanization.
—Gioia Woods, Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
The book describes the transition of the fictional Grinch, who had focused on the misunderstanding of materialism but was transformed by love and holiday spirit into a helpful, caring being who became part of the community.
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
Beverly Keel once published an article in The Tennessean that was a letter asking Santa to help our culture move beyond materialism and consumerism to the deeper meaning of Christmas.
—Clay Stauffer, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for materialism
Noun
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Once tourist fodder, the musical has remained a byword for hokey commercialism.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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German football fans have a deep, entrenched distrust of commercialism and their protests, such as disrupting games by throwing tennis balls onto the pitch, were so sustained that the investor deal was eventually abandoned.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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Across 17 tracks, Amos positions herself as both conqueror and coward, exploring how the greed and individualism of modern society has allowed tech feudalists and 21st-century robber barons to make out like kings.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
1 May 2026
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The villain is corporate greed.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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There’s a constant intertwining of protectiveness and possessiveness with Ruben in terms of his relationship to Niall.—
K.J. Yossman,
Variety,
24 Apr. 2026
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One minute, Ruben can be protecting Niall and have a sort of protective quality which is sort of beautiful, but then in the same sentence, can move into a toxic possessiveness.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Apr. 2026
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The novel used all these tensions to propel a study of greed, avarice, and racial divisions between the haves and have nots, leading to McCoy getting his comeuppance.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2026
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One reason for targeting Ashaal could have been run-of-the-mill avarice.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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Whether through invasion, subversion, or transaction, the stories of new conquests are always lit by moments of deviltry, cupidity, violence, and farce.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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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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The French—and, later, Anglo (Wilde, Beardsley, Rossetti)—attitude, mannered and morbid, was perhaps too Old World, at odds with our cheerful, Protestant rapacity.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Unlike the specialized literary magazine and its informal cousin, the literary blog, the general-interest newspaper has a kind of noble rapacity, an encyclopedic ambition to wrap its arms around the whole of the world.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Materialism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/materialism. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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