How to Use ethical in a Sentence

ethical

adjective

• Some doctors feel that this procedure is not medically ethical.
• So while a vote on a stock trading ban has failed to make it to the floor, the debate over the ethical implications rages on.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 19 July 2023
• The most ethical hotels include any mandatory fees as part of the room rate.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• What caused this shift in public judgment—indeed, an ethical shift—over the last fifty years?
  — Sam Needleman, The New York Review of Books, 7 Oct. 2023
• In a summary, the justices claim that the Supreme Court needs to have more relaxed ethical rules than lower courts do.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
• That said, the stories churned out by AI aren't anywhere as good as the show itself, and raise legal and ethical concerns.
  — Nicole Kobie, WIRED, 24 Dec. 2023
• So, even though Roberts has acknowledged the ethical crisis at the court, he’s done nothing to address it.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
• One step that helps is to use ethical, reputable breeders.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
• The lampshade was removed from public display in the 1990s due to ethical concerns.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
• Among the documents the House panel is requesting are copies of the ethical pledges signed by Haaland and any waivers that have been granted to her.
  — Susan Montoya Bryan, ajc, 6 June 2023
• The prospect of this achievement raises ethical concerns.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
• Syed argued Tuesday that Urick is covering for an ethical lapse that saw the wrong person serve decades in prison.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
• The ethical error is to suppose only one model is right.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 17 May 2023
• The series comes after stories over the past six months that have raised ethical concerns about the activities of the justices.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
• For all of the above, Trump should be disqualified in the minds of voters on moral and ethical grounds — not to mention questions about his actions, or lack thereof, in the White House.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2023
• This ethical factory, as the company calls it, opened in 2021.
  — Jessica Testa, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• But there’s bad news for consumers who, like me, have turned to these business models in hopes of becoming more ethical shoppers.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 12 June 2023
• Nor does the show register much interest in the ethical conundrums this form of warfare posed.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• For decades, judges have relied on a select group to make sure the judiciary adheres to the highest ethical standards: themselves.
  — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2023
• While ruling out a breach of criminal law, the judges noted that the accident took place in the context of paparazzi behavior that raised moral and ethical questions.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
• Today, the ethical debate surrounding the bomb remains undimmed.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 17 July 2023
• Attorneys who brought the lawsuits argued that there was no legal or ethical obligation for Protasiewicz to step aside.
  — Scott Bauer The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2023
• But given that the technology is at the center of many ethical debates, some fans took to social media, questioning its use.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023
• The code of conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court will not prevent the kinds of ethical problems that led to its adoption, because its purpose appears to be to show that the Justices have been perfectly ethical.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
• On the whole and across years of conducting the survey, college graduates tend to rate professions higher on the ethical scale than non–college graduates.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2024
• The main questions are how far, how fast and what impact the questions swirling around the justices’ ethical standards will have on their judicial work and personal relationships.
  — Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• The insights are instead delivered with a smile and a bit of encouragement to examine the ethical quandaries in your decisions.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024
• These studies lasted days or weeks because of ethical concerns over how long experiments can be run on brain-dead people.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
• The teens took a deep dive into the ethical issues that face engineers, as well as what to expect when pursuing higher education and a STEM career.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2023
• In the corporate world, this translates into questions about the ethical use of AI, the potential for mass surveillance, and the loss of human control over critical systems.
  — Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024