as in philistine
a person who is chiefly interested in material comfort and is hostile or indifferent to art and culture
a materialist who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
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Hoffman, a venture capitalist and co-founder of LinkedIn, has donated $15 million to the state Democratic Party since 2019, contributions that include a recent pair of donations totaling $275,000, state campaign records show.—
Molly Beck,
jsonline.com,
6 Feb. 2026 -
Venture capitalists and experts have previously told CNBC that these deals often leave some investors and employees in a state of limbo while founders and AI leaders get paid handsomely.—
Jonathan Vanian,
CNBC,
4 Feb. 2026
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Executives at NBCUniversal frame Bravo as a brand that represents a particular type of lowbrow-highbrow reality TV, and that even if the channel vanished, the brand could live on.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Jan. 2026
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That balance of high- and lowbrow is absent in The Abandons.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Dec. 2025
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Deep cherry red, black, and white come together to create a whimsical world of dice, cards, sad clowns, and a ticking pocketwatch.—
Samantha Brash,
InStyle,
8 Feb. 2026
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These clowns don't even have the courage of their pathetic White supremacist convictions.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Materialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/materialist. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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