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Six example sentences with complacent, each labelled with its topic.
Two easy race wins made him complacent, and he skipped the hill sessions until a slower rival caught him.
Fitness
Market leaders grow complacent when nobody has taken a point of share from them in six straight years.
Business
Ranked players who go complacent after a winning streak lose points fastest, because opponents study the same three openings.
Gaming
The governing party grew complacent after four wins and stopped knocking on doors, then lost by a thousand votes.
Politics
A twenty-point lead made the starters complacent, and the reserves who replaced them gave all of it back.
Basketball
Investors grew complacent during nine years of rising prices and stopped reading the risk disclosures entirely.
Finance
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