conscience

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Recent Examples of conscience But even those shock the conscience of this country. NBC news, 1 Feb. 2026 Many others in the Cabinet, White House and Congress have joined the dark side, where conscience doesn’t follow. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2026 The invasion of an American city by a federal occupying force might finally have stirred the conscience of the people. Michael Luo, New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2026 More than 50 years later, his words still challenge our conscience. Talia Kaplan, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for conscience
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conscience
Noun
  • Naumov doesn’t enter with the same pressure as Malinin but has already exceeded expectations in his mind.
    Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 13 Feb. 2026
  • For the launch colorway, a vivid graphic may initially bring to mind heat maps with its application of blue, green, yellow and red — but the choice was actually made to invoke a temporal fold, a theoretical concept of bending spacetime to move faster than the speed of light.
    Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Amanda Askell's job is to try to teach Claude a sense of morality, or how to be good.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The philosopher Aristotle wrote tomes on morality and human behavior.
    Tara Sonenshine, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Property taxes are based on property values, not income.
    Joe Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Millions of people watch the Olympic Games, and every logo shown on screen sends a message about what aligns with Olympic values, and what the Olympic movement chooses to endorse.
    Ukaleq Slettemark, Time, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • These firms now pay their rainmakers like Wall Street stars and have dropped their courtly scruples for relentless commercialism.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Mainstream Republicans and right-leaning unaffiliated voters will gravitate to candidates with experience and scruples.
    Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 31 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The surveys show widespread skepticism that governments can really fix problems like the affordability crisis, rising inequality, declining upward mobility, and stagnating or declining living standards.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Tesla’s questionable qualifications To qualify for a voucher, manufacturers must obtain a zero-emission powertrain certification showing the vehicle meets certain performance standards.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Surgery, cancer, heart and lung diseases, age (over 40 years old) and family history are among risk factors for developing a pulmonary embolism, per Medline Plus.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
  • In January, lawyer Robert Pang said Lai suffered health issues including heart palpitations, high blood pressure and diabetes.
    Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The renegade baseball general manager in Moneyball, for instance, was later played by Brad Pitt, while the characters in The Big Short were portrayed by Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, and Pitt again, among others.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The space’s custom art was created by Amazonian artist Winny Tapajós, portraying a mischievous garden scene full of whimsical characters.
    Devorah Lev-Tov, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2026

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“Conscience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conscience. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.

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