How to Use ethic in a Sentence

ethic

noun

• Ethics is his chosen field of study.
• Second, we are united by an ethic of equal opportunity for all.
  — WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• Among civil servants, there is an ethic of not wanting to take sides, and often an aversion to having outsiders peer over their shoulders.
  — Steven Rosenfeld, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2022
• His parents instilled in him an ethic to never waste — not money, not food, not college opportunities.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• The ethics and efficacy of AI remain a source of contention among reporters and editors.
  — Meg Little Reilly, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• Conflicts of Interest: North Dakota’s ethics rules around conflicts of interest are more lax than other states.
  — Jacob Orledge, ProPublica, 7 Oct. 2024
• That, in part is what fascinated me about talking to Steve, and our conversation reflects Steve’s ethic and his journey.
  — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• There's no question to a degree that the changing mores, the changing ethics or standards of political journalism, have given politicians much less privacy.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024
• The love ethic of race and place, familiarity and origin, makes women defend men, and workers cover for their managers and cross lines more consequential but less concrete than the picket.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• Megan’s great-grandmother—her Big Mama—exemplified the ethic of community care that has come to define Megan’s ethos.
  — Zandria Robinson, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2021
• 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
• The ethics panel for the state of New York said the judge was not required to recuse.
  — ABC News, 2 June 2024
• 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
• The ethics of reuse and upcycling were imbued in the creation of all the pieces.
  — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 11 Aug. 2024
• 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
• If these kinks don’t get ironed out soon, the ethics committee will shut the program down — and shut him off.
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2024
• But the ethics of this practice are less straightforward.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 13 June 2019
• Her ideas for the office − which include starting a program to audit convictions, creating an ethics department and upgrading technology − don't include replacing staff.
  — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024