virtue
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Ideally they should come fresh from your garden, eaten with just enough dirt still clinging to them to imply virtue.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
Wigan now have a bye week by virtue of a top two place and will be at home for their Super League play-off semi-final on Saturday, 12 September, live on the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Young men, faced with a choice to strive and suffer on behalf of teammates, build virtue not chiefly through deliberation but through action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
So Bennett, by virtue of experience in the system and his performance Saturday, appears to have the edge to back up Stafford on a team that is favored to win Super Bowl LXI.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Whether by some virtue in these sheaths or because of the spell that lay on the mound, the blades seemed untouched by time, unrusted, sharp, glittering in the sun.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
We were inculcated with the importance of charity, love toward all, good works and humility, and urged to carry those virtues into adulthood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Trump responded relatively civilly, calling Ossoff a “Pee-wee Herman look-alike” before going on a tear about the ballroom’s virtues.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
On social media, vacationers are showing off their “pharmacy hauls” from across the continent, extolling the virtues of E.U.-made creams and serums and turning drugstores into can’t-miss destinations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Apple under Tim Cook’s leadership has illustrated the virtues of sticking to one’s knitting.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
One by one the old women who had been founders of the town, several of whom had taken part in the daring crossing of the mountains, praised the virtues of General Moncada.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing virtue
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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