How to Use complacency in a Sentence

complacency

noun

• The public was lulled into complacency.
• Those who choose complacency and move slowly face a fast track to irrelevance.
  — Daniel Newman, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• Even the best-performing individuals need guidance to avoid complacency, continue growing, and reach new heights.
  — Ruth Gotian andy Lopata, Harvard Business Review, 19 Aug. 2024
• This isn’t a time for complacency and the faith that a bad performance fades on its own.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 28 June 2024
• The second set of eyes gets better, and the risk of complacency also goes up.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• The indictment of Sun shows, once again, the risks of such complacency.
  — The Editors, National Review, 5 Sep. 2024
• But shrugging it off is not the same thing as complacency.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 12 Dec. 2022
• Stage four Years six to 10 are what the Spencer Stuart researchers call the complacency trap.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 30 May 2024
• This is not a time for complacency: A lot is riding on what the next City Council will do.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 15 June 2021
• As the rain lessens in Vermont, Scott cautioned against a false sense of complacency.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 11 July 2023
• World events played a part in the expansion of the office, but so did complacency.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2021
• Given the stakes, complacency is a greater risk than alarmism.
  — Graham Allison, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
• Harrell said his goal now is not to let complacency set in.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 4 July 2021
• These emotions are meant to shake us out of complacency, to sound the alarm to the very real crisis before us.
  — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
• But stability can bring complacency, which seems to be a big part of what The Acolyte is about.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• But there is also a risk of complacency if board members stay in place too long.
  — Stuart Jackson, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• But while their stories should give us hope, they can’t be cause for complacency.
  — Tom Steyer, Fortune, 28 May 2024
• Parsons, speaking at a news conference, said there was no room for complacency in the wake of the Olympics.
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2021
• And is there a complacency issue that Trump has to worry about?
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2024
• But what’s essential is to keep people out of harm’s way and to keep them from complacency.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2023
• If there’s a sense of urgency around the team it has been well hidden under a cloak of complacency.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• The stench of that memory is why Jackson hopes to avoid any complacency.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 1 Jan. 2024
• If this just sounds like an excuse for complacency, Swisher seemed to think so too.
  — Devin Gordon, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2022
• And his messaging was clear: Now is not a time for complacency.
  — Dan Merica, CNN, 1 Nov. 2021
• That thinking may have been the result of Covid complacency.
  — Lauren Goode, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
• To its portrait of the perils of complacency, this final scene thus adds a portrait of the egotism of survival.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Georgia had many doubts and dealt with complacency at some points in the year such as almost losing to Missouri.
  — Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
• The Dallas Fuel are used to winning at this point, but there’s a fine line between complacency and hunger for more.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 12 July 2021
• Those of us who still believe in social justice are counting the cost of years of complacency.
  — Keith Magee, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
• There are too many leaders and lifers on this team to allow any sort of complacency.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024