entitlement
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Maanvi Singh, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2024
Her call-outs can be viewed as petty, reflecting entitlement or even narcissism.
—Ann Powers, NPR, 19 Apr. 2024
And for many services, citizens need not even apply, as certain entitlements are automated.
—Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2024
That workplace tension is being stoked by a younger generation that views PTO, not as a discretionary benefit, but as a fundamental entitlement, workplace experts say.
—Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2024
Despite their differences, President Biden and Donald Trump hold similar populist-nationalist views on big issues such as trade protectionism and entitlements.
—Ryan Streeter, National Review, 8 Apr. 2024
Early-twentieth-century Japan—fresh off the economic and military successes of the Meiji era—was consumed by nationalistic fervor and public feelings of entitlement to equal rank with the great powers of the era.
—Rohan Mukherjee, Foreign Affairs, 4 Apr. 2024
However, a disagreement over a long-standing fence line spirals into a hilarious war of taste, class, privilege and entitlement.
—Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2024
What the huckster cannot teach, however, is how to acquire a certain bulldozing charisma—a glossy armor of charm and entitlement, trailing a faint spritz of sociopathy, so relentless and inevitable that its possessor can only seem lightly amused by it.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2024
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“Entitlement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/entitlement. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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entitlement
nounNational Law JournalNote: Some courts have held that entitlements are a property interest and therefore subject to procedural due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution when denied by federal or state governments.
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