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Recent Examples of materialism
Religion came to play an important role in galvanizing opinion against materialism, debt and usury.
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Harris Irfan, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2015
Ling Ma, 41, Chicago, a fiction writer whose often surreal or speculative stories build from and shed light on contemporary experiences of alienation, immigration and materialism.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024
His images reveal his disdain for materialism, and the cost of greed.
—Cat Woods, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
The idea is that, having been dissidents and countercultural idealists in the nineteen-sixties, the boomers flipped in the nineteen-eighties to embrace capitalism and materialism.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
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Harris Irfan, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2015
Ling Ma, 41, Chicago, a fiction writer whose often surreal or speculative stories build from and shed light on contemporary experiences of alienation, immigration and materialism.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024
His images reveal his disdain for materialism, and the cost of greed.
—Cat Woods, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
The idea is that, having been dissidents and countercultural idealists in the nineteen-sixties, the boomers flipped in the nineteen-eighties to embrace capitalism and materialism.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for materialism
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There’s a long list of those: feminism, self-actualization, globalization, neoliberalism, commercialism.Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
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Deadpool & Wolverine is being used as a litmus test for various things, art, commercialism, consumerism, and the capability to have fun or not.Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2024
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Each had their lives cut short while fighting the good fight against unchecked corporate greed and environmental destruction.Jamie Lang, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
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Prosecutors, meanwhile, claimed the boys wanted their inheritance and murdered their parents for greed.Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2024
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People steal out of jealousy, avarice, low self-esteem and peer pressure, while others use it to demonstrate their power and independence.David Schiffer, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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No one is immune from guilt given how ownership and politicians equally drank from the well of avarice.Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr., Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
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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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To cupidity, and beyond!Kyle Smith, WSJ, 16 June 2022
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Or consider the explorers who left a cold and hungry Europe in search of tropical riches, only to realize that their own rapacity could quickly exhaust the bounty of an island paradise.Deborah R. Coen, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2014
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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 23 Nov. 2024.
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