conscience

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Recent Examples of conscience Caroline 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
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Noun
  • With these factors all in mind, clips from the Vegas opening are obviously being heavily scrutinized in Motley Crue fan forums.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Put yourself into unknown territory and open up your mind, spirit and vision.
    Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Continue reading … FAITH KNOCKOUT – Ben Shapiro and Bill Maher clash over morality and the Bible.
    , FOXNews.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • On September 16, 2022, a twenty-two-year-old Kurdish woman named Mahsa Jîna Amini was killed in Tehran by the city’s morality police.
    Fatemeh Jamalpour, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Encouraging young adults to explore interests, values and long-term aspirations facilitates intrinsic motivation.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Both require a balance of commitment and flexibility, patience and action, values and adaptability.
    Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • When the pace of innovation slows, standards emerge.
    Jim McGregor, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But Republicans should question their own members who fail in other areas that require adherence to basic standards of conscience and competence.
    Kimberly Ross, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This isn't the first time a dog with an unusual breed mix has melted hearts online.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Researchers have previously noted an elevated but rare risk of myocarditis, or inflamed heart muscle, in young men in particular.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Iger has been a fearless, equal opportunity offender in defending Disney’s corporate character, whether from intrusions by the left or by the right.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The character's scientific background becomes crucial to the investigation.
    Veronica Villafañe, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Conscience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conscience. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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