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Recent Examples of conscienceCaroline conveniently grows a conscience right around the time when the couple starts robbing banks in earnest.—Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025 Yet Gardin owes as much to the conscience of American documentary as to the verité of French photoreportage.—Max Norman, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025 Whoever heard of a serial killer with a conscience?—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025 Following all of Dexter’s declines for money, Prater can’t help but laugh at a serial killer who has a conscience.—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for conscience
At this point in its history, the theory goes, the United States requires a willful and largely unaccountable power to impose changes that leaders with more delicate sensibilities and procedural scruples cannot ever accomplish.
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Russell Muirhead,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Sep. 2025
This film for me is about morals and scruples and what people will do or won’t do for money.
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