grow complacent

Frequency: 6.23.0 per million words

Emphasizes a slow, perhaps unnoticed, development into a state of self-satisfaction.

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Examples (10)

  • We must not grow complacent about our success; the competition is always innovating.
  • After years of dominating the market, the company started to grow complacent.
  • The team has grown complacent after their long winning streak, and their performance is suffering.
  • If you never face new challenges, you risk growing complacent in your personal and professional life.
  • By their tenth anniversary, he had grown complacent and stopped planning romantic dates.
  • There's a real danger the public will grow complacent about the virus once the vaccine is widespread.
  • After getting straight A's for a year, she began to grow complacent and her study habits worsened.
  • It's easy to grow complacent in a job that you've been doing for a long time without seeking new skills.
  • Despite early victories, the general warned his troops not to grow complacent, as the war was far from over.
  • As a society, we cannot afford to grow complacent in the fight against inequality.