How to Use ethic in a Sentence

ethic

noun
  • Ethics is his chosen field of study.
  • Stay on the right side of your ethics.
    Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Read more in our ethics statement.
    Allison Johnson, The Verge, 23 June 2026
  • Read more in our ethics statement.
    Cameron Faulkner, The Verge, 18 May 2026
  • Here's what else to know about the ethics complaint.
    Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Yet Greathouse is quick to stress boundaries and ethics.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The highest court in the land has the lowest ethics laws.
    NBC news, 10 May 2026
  • Debunking will do no good — but ethics obliges us to least try.
    Laurie Penny, Longreads, 12 July 2018
  • Those questions are not only about ethics.
    Stephanie A, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
  • My thought was, time out, that’s not at all what ethics officials do.
    Dave Michaels, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • Your ethics, your safety, your future health?
    Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • This isn't about ethics or religion.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
  • So that's kind of where the punk ethic seeped into the blues and the funk styling.
    Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer, 9 Dec. 2022
  • In ethics, at least, there’s a decent case that no one has improved much on them.
    Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • The case exposed lax ethics on the part of the Bar itself.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
  • In many of these cases, the core problem was not simply ethics.
    Nizan Geslevich Packin, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • A lot of people feel very strongly about it, and the ethics behind it.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The ethics got scaled down as the valuation scaled up?
    Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Faith shaped his views on ethics and human dignity.
    Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Body shame, as beauty becomes ethics, becomes shame of the self.
    Heather Widdows, Time, 13 June 2018
  • So, choosing your ethics can feel like wading against the current.
    Cara Heilmann, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • What might an ethics of contingency look like?
    Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Don’t wait for deployment to worry about ethics.
    Ori Lev-Ran, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Campaign finance and ethics experts aren't so sure.
    Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 13 Feb. 2026
  • This is a guy who has been working quietly for a long time on ethics issues.
    Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 30 May 2017
  • Give us a flavor of his adventures and discuss the ethics of that trade.
    National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2018
  • This is the second lawsuit centered on the Niles ethics board.
    Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2023
  • What are the ethics of using it in reporting and writing?
    Gina Chua, semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The trend dates back centuries, and the debate over its ethics has been ongoing.
    Glamour, 10 Apr. 2019
  • There's no universal handbook for buyers who want to stay on the right side of ethics.
    Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 9 Mar. 2026

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