The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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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
George Eliot, who tried to learn comedy from Dickens but didn't quite have the ear for it, is forever shaking us out of our complacencies.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2010
It has not the usual qualities of the reverie, for it does not hover about our personal complacencies and humiliations.
From The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by James Harvey Robinson
