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conscience

[kon-shuhns] / ˈkɒn ʃəns /


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For the better part of a year, I spent myriad sleepless nights wrestling with my conscience.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026

No machine has free will, conscience, spiritual depth, the capacity for love, or the ability to grow through hardship, sacrifice and contemplation.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

"We trusted a man without a conscience, and my son paid the price," she wrote.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

"Neither my conscience nor common sense will allow me to stop an election that has already begun," Republican state Senator Richard Cash said in a statement carried by US media.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

It was for herself, for her own crime which her conscience could no longer bear.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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