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Donate today to preserve the quality and integrity of local journalism.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Oct. 2025 -
There is professional integrity (as an analyst).—
Adam Crafton,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Released in 1936, this morality tale against marijuana was financed by a long-defunct church group called the Motion Picture Guild.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
3 Oct. 2025
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Spare us the lesson in morality on peace if your goal is escalation.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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Another, a young miner, advocates in biblical terms for the union’s righteousness and helps to lead a strike.—
The Conversation,
The Conversation,
7 Oct. 2025
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It is believed that a person who dies on this holy day is viewed as a tzaddik, a person of exceptional righteousness.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
24 Sep. 2025
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The virtue of independence is the companion of freedom.—
John H Bolthouse,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Oct. 2025
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But trends, especially on social media, that fallback on body-shaming stereotypes casting thinness as a virtue haven't disappeared.—
Stephanie Ganz,
Parents,
8 Oct. 2025
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Like, Oh my goodness, look at that sycamore tree!—
Dan Heching,
CNN Money,
11 Oct. 2025
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Soy sauce adds saltiness and umami goodness to the sauce.—
Robin Miller,
AZCentral.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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And not unlike that earlier film, this one takes its tale of debauchery and rectitude and reconciles everything with a fiery third act.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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The subtler truth is that a similar kind of minimalist rectitude is what has governed the best of the older monuments in the nation’s capital.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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Please remember that the committee is not headed by Alexander Hamilton, a man of utmost probity and intelligence, but will be headed by Scott Bessent.—
Vipin Bharathan,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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McKinley was a man whose probity, caution, and incrementalism shrouded his analytical adroitness and tactical boldness.—
Robert W. Merry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
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So woke and political correctness are basically the same thing.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
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In contrast, today there are many million individual pieces of evidence in every branch of biology, all of which support and none of which refute the essential correctness of Darwin’s theory.—
D. Scott Schmid,
Denver Post,
22 Sep. 2025
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