conscience

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Recent Examples of conscience 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 Today, those who build these nearly omnipotent algorithms are still possessed of a human conscience. Tyler Johnson, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for conscience
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conscience
Noun
  • Whether the Jedi mind trick played a role Sunday is hard to quantify, but the message was obvious.
    Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • But housing was also on the minds of the organizers.
    Ashley Hiruko, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Spare us the lesson in morality on peace if your goal is escalation.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Shakur being remembered as a pillar of morality, beauty, and justice that was still, at the end of the day, human with her own emotions, and beauty routines, makes her impact everlastingly powerful.
    Essence, Essence, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The capsule includes just six pieces, each with a hangtag detailing its techniques and materials to better communicate the brand’s values to the customer.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2025
  • And the president is meeting with the Office of Management and Budget to try to understand what agencies are essential, what agencies do not align with the administration's priorities and values.
    Steve Inskeep, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Since you’re still considered a federal employee on furlough, any job must fall within the federal government’s standards of ethical conduct and rules.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • And the typical rules of decorum are loosened as a result — at least by golf standards.
    Bob Harkins, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Beneath a pink bow laden with rhinestones, colorful floral paper was dotted with rhinestones laid in heart and star shapes.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • At the end of 2023, the researchers compared the group with only one infection to the group with a second infection, focusing on Long COVID-like symptoms such as abdominal pain, respiratory distress, changes in taste and smell, fatigue, chest pain, myocarditis, or irregular heart beat.
    Alice Park, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the movie, there is a montage with a voiceover that shows a classroom interaction between Lohan's character and her crush, Aaron Samuels, played by Jonathan Bennett.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The wardrobe and general aesthetic of the character were also already in his mind prior to casting.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Conscience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conscience. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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