Example Sentences

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Morals and ethics are second cousins, twice removed.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

Jewish leaders in New York established the Bureau of Social Morals and worked with police to address the crime problem.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

Driving it all is a lesson not typically among the offerings from major-studio animation’s Big Bag of Morals.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2022

It is about the pleasure derived from exploiting others, as Nietzsche wrote in "On the Genealogy of Morals":

From Salon • May 4, 2021

Then I began to write, weaving the strands I’d found in Hume’s Principles of Morals with filaments from Mill’s The Subjection of Women.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover