How to Use ethical in a Sentence

ethical

adjective

• Some doctors feel that this procedure is not medically ethical.
• Or is there just always going to be some person or private interest on the back end tipping the ethical-value scale?
  — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
• These principles drive them to use ethical practices in the formulation and production of their colognes.
  — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
• The line between ethical imperative and basic survival strategy has long since been chipped away.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
• Outside income has posed ethical and legal problems for some of New York's top lawmakers.
  — CBS News, 23 Dec. 2022
• The sense that the Court may be struggling or helpless to enforce ethical norms, underlined by the Dobbs leak, has only grown since then.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• The challenge, in this and in other spheres, is to support ethical practices without cloaking oneself in self-righteousness.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2022
• The sanctuary is conducting the research in accordance with its own strict ethical standards, which include giving the animals the right to choose whether or not to participate in studies.
  — Emily Anthes Lauren Petracca, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• Since then, a new round of ethical questions, and the court’s rulings this term, have increased calls for change.
  — Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• 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
• Best of the web — How the documentary/docuseries boom tests ethical standards of the form.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 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 progress has raised a new ethical issue: how to ensure these new therapies reach those who most need them.
  — Bykai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 13 Mar. 2023
• The lampshade was removed from public display in the 1990s due to ethical concerns.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
• And the rise of AI warfare opens a Pandora’s box of ethical and legal issues.
  — Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024
• Has the car gotten more human-centered or ethical in 100 years?
  — WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
• The rise of robotic weapons like drone ships is raising legal and ethical concerns.
  — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
• 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
• The real question is: Were the methods Haffenden and the Navy used ethical, or even legal?
  — Denise Davidson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 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
• Third party-groups, like ethical hackers, could create patches or fixes for problems that anyone can access.
  — Rumman Chowdhury, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
• And vegans are ethical bottom feeders compared with fruitarians, who don’t even kill plants for their sustenance.
  — David G. Allan, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024