How to Use ethic in a Sentence

ethic

noun
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  • Ethics is his chosen field of study.
  • Readers commented on the taste, the ethics and the prices.
    — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 8 July 2019
  • So that's kind of where the punk ethic seeped into the blues and the funk styling.
    — Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Bronner said he was not opposed to a code of ethics but questioned the need.
    — Mike Cason, AL.com, 3 Jan. 2018
  • But has his party called for any sort of ethics inquiry?
    — Maggie Mallon, Glamour, 8 Dec. 2017
  • This is the second lawsuit centered on the Niles ethics board.
    — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Give us a flavor of his adventures and discuss the ethics of that trade.
    — National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2018
  • But the ethics of this practice are less straightforward.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 13 June 2019
  • Debunking will do no good — but ethics obliges us to least try.
    — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 12 July 2018
  • The trend dates back centuries, and the debate over its ethics has been ongoing.
    — Glamour, 10 Apr. 2019
  • Where the ethics of the characters and their decisions are tested.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The announcement sparked a global debate over the ethics of gene editing.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Body shame, as beauty becomes ethics, becomes shame of the self.
    — Heather Widdows, Time, 13 June 2018
  • The late author bell hooks wrote a beautiful essay about the ethic of love.
    — Maisie Sparks, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2022
  • This is a guy who has been working quietly for a long time on ethics issues.
    — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 30 May 2017
  • In ethics, at least, there’s a decent case that no one has improved much on them.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Cities need to reframe health as an ethic, not an amenity.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 23 Dec. 2021
  • My thought was, time out, that’s not at all what ethics officials do.
    — Dave Michaels, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • One of the ethics of this social media age is the idea that authorship is its own kind of dignity.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Uruguay's win was an even greater testament to team ethic.
    — SI.com, 2 July 2018
  • It’s this ethic that’s kept him at the head of the Hollywood pack for more than two decades now.
    — Ben Court, Men's Health, 16 Nov. 2022
  • That report prompted lawmakers to call for an overhaul of the state’s ethics rules.
    — Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Rose's place in the Hall of Fame is not a question of his achievements on the field, but his ethics.
    — David Mark, Washington Examiner, 9 Feb. 2020
  • This is not the first time Conway has been called out for an ethics violation.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Has anyone in the Trump White House gone through ethics training?
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
  • The ethics of using prime farmland to grow fuel rather than food are dubious at best.
    — Brian Barth, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2017
  • One of the top things on every employer's list is someone with a strong work ethic.
    — Andra Newman, Teen Vogue, 14 Jan. 2016
  • When dealing with bot phone calls, there’s not only the question of ethics, but of etiquette.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 8 May 2018
  • The ethics commission so far this year has issued three separate fines.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2023
  • There is a growing concern about the ethics of using AI in these areas.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023

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