"breed" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- And a growing economy bred complacency.
- He has the romantic suspicion that happiness might breed complacency.
- Perhaps, he thought, the years of being left alone by the police and FBI had bred complacency.
- Experience can breed complacency and misplaced confidence, Sergeant.
- In addition, economists say, the Island illustrates how years of affluence can breed complacency that leaves such problems unaddressed.
- Does familiarity with strange species and distant landscapes breed contempt or complacency, rather than reverence?
- The lesson is that long bull markets and prolonged expansions breed complacency.
- Bill Lynch, the Dinkins campaign manager, said he was concerned that his candidate's comfortable lead in public-opinon polls would breed complacency.
- This comfortable situation of ours, however, should not breed complacency.
- The 50 percent figure may be breeding complacency about the extent of dental disease in children, which is still major, the Harvard researchers say.
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