How to Use complacency in a Sentence

complacency

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  • The public was lulled into complacency.
  • The second set of eyes gets better, and the risk of complacency also goes up.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • But shrugging it off is not the same thing as complacency.
    — Maren Estrada, BGR, 12 Dec. 2022
  • As the rain lessens in Vermont, Scott cautioned against a false sense of complacency.
    — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 11 July 2023
  • But what’s essential is to keep people out of harm’s way and to keep them from complacency.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2023
  • If there’s a sense of urgency around the team it has been well hidden under a cloak of complacency.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
  • The stench of that memory is why Jackson hopes to avoid any complacency.
    — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 1 Jan. 2024
  • If this just sounds like an excuse for complacency, Swisher seemed to think so too.
    — Devin Gordon, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2022
  • To its portrait of the perils of complacency, this final scene thus adds a portrait of the egotism of survival.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Georgia had many doubts and dealt with complacency at some points in the year such as almost losing to Missouri.
    — Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2023
  • But Adams’ colleague, Alex Tardy, said this is not a moment for complacency.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Neither his ankle nor complacency is going to slow his quest to be the greatest.
    — Joe Drape, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley stays on the lookout for signs of complacency.
    — John Zenor, ajc, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Harsin doesn’t want to create a mindset of complacency with his team in facing an FCS program.
    — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 25 Aug. 2022
  • There isn’t much left for Stephen Curry to prove at this stage in his career, not that success would create any complacency.
    — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Aug. 2022
  • My candidacy for Cleveland Clerk of Courts was based on shaking up the complacency that has set in over many years.
    — Molly Walsh | Mwalsh@cleveland.com, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Little incidents such as these open the door to complacency, and complacency opens the door to risk.
    — Ilia Sotnikov, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • An encounter, plus a glimpse of a horrifying new stage act, sets Zillah on a path out of complacency.
    — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Unite the Right jarred the community from its complacency.
    — Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
  • Certainty—even a false sense of it—has a way of fostering complacency.
    — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Compromise and complacency aren’t part of the equation.
    — Tiziana Cardini, Vogue, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Gustav turns from complacency to a form of activism that even members of the underground tell him is foolhardy.
    — The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Even some more proactive efforts have run into a wall of complacency.
    — Benjamin Mueller, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2022
  • More than six months later, Smart no longer is worried about complacency in his program.
    — Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al, 20 July 2022
  • The bill for decades of complacency and neglect is coming due at a dangerous moment, as China ramps up its fleet.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2022
  • And when the fate of humanity is up against a ticking clock, the battle between courage and complacency has never been more urgent.
    — Josie Howell | , al, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The fact that all three of their previous contests were one-run decisions should insure there will be no complacency among the Gators’ players.
    — USA TODAY, 23 June 2023
  • One answer to this is to monitor the driver to reduce complacency.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • My long belief in historic milestones is that the enemy of progress is complacency.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
  • To hear Hart’s full comments on complacency, the best memory from his childhood and why being a multi-hyphenate is the way to go, see the full episode below.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2023

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