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Noun
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Its creation reflected not just morality, but also the practical fears and self-interests of nations.—
Stephen Herzog,
The Conversation,
1 Aug. 2025 -
Its specter can, overnight, reframe a conflict that already has cost 60,000 lives, and fueled tense global debates on morality, antisemitism, the laws of war.—
Karl Vick,
Time,
1 Aug. 2025
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As each couple works to uncover the truth and save their own daughter, long buried tensions and uncomfortable truths erupt, forcing them to abandon any pretence of decency and to question all of their certainties as spouses, parents and friends.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
4 Aug. 2025
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Hutson, like so many Republicans, wants to maintain his own veneer of decency while still managing to support what Trump is doing.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
28 July 2025
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Another constitutional clause that was removed from the Library of Congress' website included a line that bars Congress from offering Americans titles of nobility — a limitation that sought to safeguard the United States government from being influenced by European monarchies.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Robert is a marquis, inheritor of an ancient title of nobility, who nonetheless has German Jewish ancestry, something that attracts the attention of other characters.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
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And both the book and the film offered historically nonsensical versions of the Klan as an honorable and chivalrous group fighting for social justice and the virtue of white womanhood.—
Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
15 Aug. 2025
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That might sound sadistic; indeed, sadism is something of a Hitchcockian virtue.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
14 Aug. 2025
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Key aspects of this work include ensuring fairness and equality, maintaining confidentiality and promoting diversity and inclusion.—
Dr. Nara Ringrose,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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My concern isn’t rooted in envy, but in a fundamental question of economic fairness and resource allocation.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Aug. 2025
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Good people embody qualities like calmness, conscientiousness, universalism, agreeableness, warmth, security, tradition and conformity.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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When compared to extraversion, conscientiousness is more strongly related to academic success, work performance and lower rates of substance use.—
Jasmine Mote,
Scientific American,
7 July 2025
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Her dedication to producing tangible improvements in the realm of social justice is evidenced by her previous positions, most recently as the director of the center for social justice at the Urban League of Southwestern Ohio.—
Grace Tucker,
The Enquirer,
7 Aug. 2025
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Doubling as an account of modern American conservatism (from media gadflies to six Supreme Court justices), the film is punctuated with contemporaneous footage that, viewed through the lens of Olin’s misdeeds, generates the tension and shock of a genre film.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Respectability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/respectability. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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