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Noun
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Every question written by him, every edit handled with care, every detail rooted in integrity.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
30 Sep. 2025 -
Donate today to preserve the quality and integrity of local journalism.—
Ella McCarthy,
Arkansas Online,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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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
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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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His specialty is now the heedless hero whose certainty about his righteousness drives him to extremes.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Growing longer, healthier hair takes a lot of patience—a virtue that clashes with social media’s instant gratification itch.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
2 Oct. 2025
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In his mind, the army was not a caste apart but an instrument of the republic – an arena in which self-command and civic virtue were tested.—
Maurizio Valsania,
The Conversation,
2 Oct. 2025
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There are few people in human history whose last names alone are sufficient to conjure up kindness, goodness, wisdom, grace—Mandela, Gandhi, King, Lincoln.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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Any starchy side to soak up all the goodness!—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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