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Recent Examples of conscience
Caroline conveniently grows a conscience right around the time when the couple starts robbing banks in earnest.
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Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
Yet Gardin owes as much to the conscience of American documentary as to the verité of French photoreportage.
—Max Norman, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Whoever heard of a serial killer with a conscience?
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Following all of Dexter’s declines for money, Prater can’t help but laugh at a serial killer who has a conscience.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
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Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
Yet Gardin owes as much to the conscience of American documentary as to the verité of French photoreportage.
—Max Norman, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Whoever heard of a serial killer with a conscience?
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Following all of Dexter’s declines for money, Prater can’t help but laugh at a serial killer who has a conscience.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conscience
Noun
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With these factors all in mind, clips from the Vegas opening are obviously being heavily scrutinized in Motley Crue fan forums.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
14 Sep. 2025
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Put yourself into unknown territory and open up your mind, spirit and vision.—
Kyle Thomas,
PEOPLE,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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What begins as a family mystery gradually opens onto broader questions of social resentment, morality and the enduring trauma of history.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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The story just keeps building on itself, adding new characters and deep complexity to what could otherwise have been a flat morality tale.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Encouraging young adults to explore interests, values and long-term aspirations facilitates intrinsic motivation.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Both require a balance of commitment and flexibility, patience and action, values and adaptability.—
Allen Buchanan,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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At this point in its history, the theory goes, the United States requires a willful and largely unaccountable power to impose changes that leaders with more delicate sensibilities and procedural scruples cannot ever accomplish.—
Russell Muirhead,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Sep. 2025
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This film for me is about morals and scruples and what people will do or won’t do for money.—
Zak Cheney-Rice,
Vulture,
28 Aug. 2025
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But Republicans should question their own members who fail in other areas that require adherence to basic standards of conscience and competence.—
Kimberly Ross,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Align With Compliance Work with your legal team to ensure the policy meets any relevant laws or standards, such as HIPAA in healthcare, GDPR in the EU or other data protection rules.—
Mike Rosen,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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As the sun was setting, hundreds of North Texans — many clad in black — gathered with candles and posters in their hands and solidarity in their hearts.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Sep. 2025
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But roughly 20-30% of people who are infected develop severe symptoms, including a range of heart issues—such as heart failure, irregular heartbeat, or even death—and digestive issues—such as an enlarged esophagus or colon, which could cause problems with eating or going to the bathroom.—
Chantelle Lee,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Indeed, the only character from The Office that actually carried over into the new series is Oscar, who serves as the lead accountant for Softees but gets dragooned into reporting and constructing Sudokus for the paper.—
Michael M. Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Instead, deaf viewers see unsynchronized plain white text on a black background and it is left to their imagination to infer those rich and nuanced character tomes essential for storytelling that hearing audiences take for granted.—
Gus Alexiou,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Conscience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conscience. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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