How to Use ethic in a Sentence

ethic

noun
  • Ethics is his chosen field of study.
  • So that's kind of where the punk ethic seeped into the blues and the funk styling.
    Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Readers commented on the taste, the ethics and the prices.
    Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 8 July 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 the second lawsuit centered on the Niles ethics board.
    Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Has anyone in the Trump White House gone through ethics training?
    New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
  • Here, again, the market can create the demand for ethics.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Bronner said he was not opposed to a code of ethics but questioned the need.
    Mike Cason, AL.com, 3 Jan. 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
  • But has his party called for any sort of ethics inquiry?
    Maggie Mallon, Glamour, 8 Dec. 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
  • Debunking will do no good — but ethics obliges us to least try.
    Laurie Penny, Longreads, 12 July 2018
  • Give us a flavor of his adventures and discuss the ethics of that trade.
    National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2018
  • My thought was, time out, that’s not at all what ethics officials do.
    Dave Michaels, WSJ, 13 July 2018
  • The trend dates back centuries, and the debate over its ethics has been ongoing.
    Glamour, 10 Apr. 2019
  • Body shame, as beauty becomes ethics, becomes shame of the self.
    Heather Widdows, Time, 13 June 2018
  • But the ethics of this practice are less straightforward.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 13 June 2019
  • For the past few years, the two have been putting in work and embodying their hometown’s Grind City ethic.
    Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Is a 40-year-old breach of ethics grounds for legal action today?
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 16 Dec. 2019
  • When dealing with bot phone calls, there’s not only the question of ethics, but of etiquette.
    Lauren Goode, WIRED, 8 May 2018
  • There was bipartisan interest in ethics changes at the Supreme Court in the past.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • There is a growing concern about the ethics of using AI in these areas.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • That was surely based on Matt Gaetz trying to stop an ethics complaint.
    CBS News, 24 Mar. 2024
  • That points to what may be the thorniest issue related to Supreme Court ethics: Who would enforce the code, and how?
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
  • Where the ethics of the characters and their decisions are tested.
    Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Sep. 2017
  • This is not the first time Conway has been called out for an ethics violation.
    Monique Judge, The Root, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Anthropic is also among a crop of AI startups that have staked out a claim to putting ethics first.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Pundits and stakeholders can, and have, debated the ethics of who gets waivers and who doesn’t.
    Sam Blum, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Cities need to reframe health as an ethic, not an amenity.
    Diana Budds, Curbed, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The late author bell hooks wrote a beautiful essay about the ethic of love.
    Maisie Sparks, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2022

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