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Adjective
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This helps maintain a healthy lifestyle that’s conscientious about what goes into and on the body.—
Molly Peck,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2025 -
And in the early, idealistic years of the folk revival, Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers (who died in 2009) strummed and harmonized their way toward that conscientious balance of folk and pop.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The tone of the series is, more than anything else, comforting, at a time when trans people and their allies could certainly use some moral affirmation—not to mention emotional validation.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
6 Feb. 2025
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In the weeks before the election, former President Barack Obama gave moral sermons and philosophical treatises on behalf of the Harris-Walz campaign, his speeches suggesting that politics still existed in a social atmosphere of contemplation and debate.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Their legacy and honorable service to our Nation will forever remain.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
1 Feb. 2025
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This only further confirmed to me that Justin and Wayfarer are exceedingly honorable and highly ethical.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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With risks, investments, and ethical considerations to weigh, the right questions can determine the success of AI initiatives.—
Julie Petit,
WWD,
3 Feb. 2025
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The Aritzia Cashmere Hood is made from jersey-knit, 100 percent Grade A cashmere verified for ethical sustainability by The Good Cashmere Standard.—
Jessica Macdonald,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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These orders, including the most recent one, issued February 5, honor honest scientific inquiry and reverse the trend of activists distorting the scientific picture.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
10 Feb. 2025
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Open, honest communication with your healthcare team is one of the best ways to prepare for what lies ahead and improve your quality of life.—
Nick Blackmer,
Verywell Health,
10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Functional character, product engineering, extreme study of spaces, scrupulous search for a unique design that finds in detail an extreme elegance combined with highly performing technological elements, are the thread of this innovative project.—
Jim Dobson,
Forbes,
20 Nov. 2024
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In leaving much of his story up to intuition — and taking a climactic turn toward the surreal — Chowdhury crafts a scrupulous slow-burn drama about a kind of obsession that, despite being opaque, comes off as entirely tragic.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The spotlight has shown light on the big, bad wolves on the other end of those chats, yet the spotlight itself has perverted the process of real justice by making this a righteous spectacle.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
27 Jan. 2025
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Psychological probing was never on the agenda: The slick, righteous pull of the episodes stands in stark contrast to remarkable, untelevised raw footage that Osit has uncovered of police rather more temperately interrogating the show’s targets after the initial capture.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Scientists have long warned that this could disrupt the virtuous cycle through which trees fuel rain clouds by releasing water vapor.—
Alex Cuadros,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2025
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My run-up to the MAHA event had been less than virtuous: potato chips for breakfast on the Amtrak from New York City to DC, then french fries and a whole-milk cortado for lunch.—
Margaux Anbouba,
Vogue,
21 Jan. 2025
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