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While other producers might have contented themselves with their achievements far earlier, Marty Krofft indicated to The AP in 2015 that he no had interest in stepping back from show business.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2023

After last summer, he could have contented himself to rake in cash and sit at home as a kind of chairman emeritus.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023

Prosecutors should have contented themselves with proving that the Bundys and their band appropriated and damaged public property.

From Washington Times • Oct. 31, 2016

A lazier, less passionate playwright might have contented himself with rewriting Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in different ways, or just quit when the critical reception got rough.

From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2016

Previous writers have contented themselves with the Latin or the British element; this is the first study of their conflict as seen from the centre of the field.

From The Riverside Bulletin, March, 1910 Houghton Mifflin Books for Spring and Summer by Anonymous