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The documents included emails, personal essays and other academic records, which showed Crooks to be a conscientious and intelligent college student with an interest in engineering as well as a clear skepticism of the federal government and corporations.—
Emily Mae Czachor
July 13,
CBS News,
13 July 2025 -
More than 70% of participants were classified as open-minded, conscientious, and emotionally stable, suggesting the sample may not reflect the broader personality distribution in the general population, the authors noted.—
Brian Mastroianni,
Health,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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By sheer coincidence, Clark starts writing articles about the moral inappropriateness of Batman’s vigilante justice.—
Will Harris,
EW.com,
11 July 2025
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America was headed toward the Civil War and both sides knew the manpower and land would be valuable, to say nothing of the moral implications.—
David Ubben,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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Our leadership spends its time implying anyone with origins south of our border is less than honorable and must be deported regardless of their contributions, just to feel powerful.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
10 July 2025
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Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan University in Connecticut, has taken the harder and more honorable route.—
John T. Shaw,
Twin Cities,
10 July 2025
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Managers are the ethical gatekeepers responsible for monitoring outputs and ensuring alignment with company values.—
Dr. Timothy J. Giardino,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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Those cases are among dozens of complaints of ethical misconduct that have been effectively dismissed over the past two years as the Missouri Ethics Commission remains hobbled by vacancies.—
Kacen Bayless
July 8,
Kansas City Star,
8 July 2025
Adjective
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Be honest about systems that are no longer serving their purpose.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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The production noted how the work has continued to resonate with readers over the past decade, for its honest depiction of trauma recovery and the power of self-empowerment and love.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
14 July 2025
Adjective
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People typically create rituals with a scrupulous adherence to rules and link them to certain psychological elements.—
Gina Park,
CNN Money,
26 June 2025
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Yet amid all the scrupulous documentation, one key piece is missing, one specific that would have laid to rest the decades of doubt and speculation that followed Nadja’s publication in 1928: the face and identity of Nadja herself.—
Mark Polizzoti
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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Cruise dons Kovic’s uniform with unflinching vulnerability, while Stone, himself a Vietnam veteran, directs with righteous anger and empathy.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2025
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This strong, authentic understanding amidst the ambiguity of whether righteous living leads to health and wealth is prominent throughout the Bible.—
Walt Shelton,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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This creates a virtuous cycle where clean transportation adoption supports renewable energy deployment, which in turn reduces the entire transport system’s carbon intensity.—
Margo T. Oge,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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This combination of recycling and increasing efficiency makes for a kind of mind-blowing virtuous cycle.—
Bill McKibben,
New Yorker,
9 July 2025
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