virtue

To successfully complete their journey, each student must embody a virtue that belongs to a different House.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

And if the 39-year-old can score twice in the final against Spain, he will take the Golden Boot by virtue of having more assists.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

One might prefer the selfless virtue exemplified by Washington, the yeoman simplicity imagined by Jefferson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

It makes Rocket Lab, which has been called a mini-SpaceX by virtue of its ability to launch things into space and make satellites, even more like Elon Musk’s rocket company.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

So if we suffered in our little house on the peanut plain of Bethlehem, it was proof that one of us had committed a failure of virtue.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Apple under Tim Cook’s leadership has illustrated the virtues of sticking to one’s knitting.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026

Cadres seem to think this approach boasts the twin virtues of being relatively easy to execute and potentially shutting up the noisy foreign economists who keep arguing for a Keynesian spending boost for the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

The Congolese proverb little by little, grow the bananas emphasises the virtues of patience and steady progress.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

I had spent the past couple of weeks corresponding with Raw Farm founder Mark McAfee, who’d filled my inbox with messages and PowerPoints extolling the virtues of his most important, and controversial, product:

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

Their new science was organized around the virtues of a juge d’instruction: intellectual rigour, a set of formalized procedures, a quest for a complete proof, a confidence that one need only answer to other professionals.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton