conscience

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Recent Examples of conscience Yet Weil would not surrender her conscience to any creed. Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025 Recoechi melds the best elements of street storytelling and conscience, stepping into a role that his generation of Chicago rap has long needed to be filled. Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025 Personally, that didn’t sit right with me, that didn’t sit right with my conscience. Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025 This brief modification was enough to ruffle the conscience of a film critic. Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for conscience
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Noun
  • Payton lost his mind, running onto the field, drawing a penalty.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • These disorienting films linger on the mind long after the credits roll.
    Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • It was considered immoral to lie and the whole point of writing things down back then was to increase morality and improve society, so there really is no didactic history of forgery.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Still, the Catholic Legion of Decency and other morality groups would criticize the scene as indecent.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The contents of the article do not reflect me or the values of our state.
    Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Missouri values fairness and integrity, and this process reflects that.
    Savannah Hawley-Bates, NPR, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Luckily Florida has no such scruples.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Incensed at being outsmarted, the CEO of Weyland-Yutani (Sandra Yi Sencindive) allows one of her employees, a cyborg with very few scruples named Morrow (Babou Ceesay), to use any means necessary to reacquire the biological specimens.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • By Harvard’s standards, the school’s endowment was not its primary boasting point—public-health alumni don’t tend to become billionaires —and in times of wider financial turmoil, HSPH remained well insulated, Amanda Spickard, the associate dean for research strategy and external affairs, told me.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Watch this video to learn how social media algorithms are impacting beauty standards for both men and women.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a common theme with Steen, Arbour and Jackman — all three players were heart-and-soul players with the Blues.
    Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Our hearts are extra full this week 🥰 #DedicationNight featuring our stars’ special guests is TONIGHT - 8/7c on ABC and Disney+.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Animated characters like Tony the Tiger, Count Chocula and Fred Flintstone blurred the line between ads and morning cartoons.
    Alice Callahan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The novel can get busy—Taylor introduces each of Wyeth’s studio mates in the first chapter, then all but abandons half of them to squeeze in more significant characters—but there’s a warmth in the overcrowding.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Conscience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conscience. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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