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Recent Examples of ethic
Painter, the former Bush ethics official, agrees the transfer to a trust doesn’t matter because Trump still has a financial interest.
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Matt Egan, CNN Money, 22 Dec. 2025
For Benson, the play is a multi-set match, its arguments whizzing back and forth over a net of questionable ethics.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
The Indiana Supreme Court's disciplinary commission has decided to dismiss an ethics complaint brought against Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita by a Republican state senator.
—Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 17 Dec. 2025
What had happened to this ethic?
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
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Matt Egan, CNN Money, 22 Dec. 2025
For Benson, the play is a multi-set match, its arguments whizzing back and forth over a net of questionable ethics.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
The Indiana Supreme Court's disciplinary commission has decided to dismiss an ethics complaint brought against Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita by a Republican state senator.
—Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 17 Dec. 2025
What had happened to this ethic?
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ethic
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Capping those rates could backfire, resulting in significantly stricter lending standards and making credit unavailable to lower-income people or those with lower credit scores.—
Luciana Lopez,
CNN Money,
10 Jan. 2026
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Beyond money, other issues expected to be hammered out in CBA talks include the length of the season, facility and travel standards, retirement benefits and changes to rookie deals.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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So this is to the ones who are sticking to their values in difficult moments.—
Breanne L. Heldman,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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Money-minded Venus is squaring curative Chiron, pushing you to match your spending habits with your values (without shaming yourself or others).—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Jan. 2026
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The vocalist has led his band Fuerza Regida to top multiple Billboard charts and helped propel the Mexican corrido tradition, all while running his own label.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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Kate Middleton turns 44 today—and in a break from tradition, instead of the customary portrait that usually marks the occasion, the Princess of Wales has released a video.—
Anna Grace Lee,
Vogue,
9 Jan. 2026
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Another reviewer traveled for a whole month in Morocco, hitting up 10 different cities and taking several modes of transportation.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Jan. 2026
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Users can choose between three suction modes, saving battery on the lowest level and tackling tougher messes with a punch of power.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
13 Jan. 2026
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Advertisement Redefining productivity for the 21st century, however, requires making big, often difficult changes to longstanding workplace norms, and likely won’t succeed without enthusiastic employee buy-in.—
Joe O’Connor,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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Across the country, communities are experiencing an escalation of militarized immigration enforcement that spreads fear, separates families and violates basic constitutional norms.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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The Condor Mk3 builds on Collins’ successful SSR heritage to provide high-duty cycle transmitter for superior detection and has built-in ADS-B decoding with patented algorithms.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Jan. 2026
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In the 210-square-meter Georgian suite, Michelle Wu has devised an impeccable meld of Victorian heritage with a light touch of chinoiserie.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Ethic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ethic. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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