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The rudder in her work, and in her thinking, is this aversion to, and constant vigilance against, easy complacencies and groupthink.

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2018

“Our contexts are not the same, our struggles are not the same, and so our rebellions and complacencies and conformities and compromises cannot be compared.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 6, 2017

The financial crisis taught us that long-held assumptions and complacencies can and will fall apart in a subprime minute.

From BusinessWeek • Feb. 27, 2012

Thereafter he campaigned tirelessly, and secretly, on behalf of political prisoners in the Eastern bloc and turned his public scorn against what he discerned as the hypocrisies and complacencies of the British left-wing intelligentsia.

From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2010

Betray’d by traitors lodged in his own breast, By sweet complacencies from virtue felt?

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward