ethic
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What I will say about Sullivan is he has the work ethic to go with the talent.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
If you haven’t noticed yet, Cadet is motivated to take his skills and work ethic as far as they can go and won’t let anyone put up a roadblock to stop him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Mr. Haidt’s research also finds that even within societies with a prevailing autonomy ethic, the ethics of divinity and community are much stronger within religious and conservative spaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
“She was a baller,” Avery said of her mom’s work ethic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
People who say today’s generation has no work ethic would take that back if they saw how busy I’d been in one short week.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
Everybody else who gets an ethics complaint or faces an ethics question faces fact-finding about it.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
In the wake of the Carruthers debacle, substantial questions were raised about Fowler’s ethics and competence, but they did not deter Tennessee from calling on him again.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
The Vatican invited Anthropic to a launch event for Pope Leo’s encyclical, citing the company’s ethics following its face-off with the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
"That has to be within the control of a UK, preferably UK-owned firm, but certainly a UK firm that understands the ethics and way that the NHS works," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
This business of saving souls had no ethics; every human relationship was shamelessly exploited.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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