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morality

[muh-ral-i-tee, maw-] / məˈræl ɪ ti, mɔ- /


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Given our own tinderbox of a world—in the face of the Somme, in the face of millions killed—the highest morality has nothing to do with domestic scandals and everything to do with preventing great-power war.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

DR Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner wrote to the owners of Arsenal and PSG and to Bayern president Herbert Hainer to "question the morality" of the deals.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Businesses in Afghanistan's western city of Herat have suffered from a downturn in female customers opting to stay home following a recent crackdown by morality police on women's attire, according to shopkeepers, drivers and residents.

From Barron's Jul. 12, 2026

But it remains a relevant morality tale — of the rot that comes with coveting all of L.A.’s beautiful things and the pitfalls of parenting by giving your children all the material things you lacked.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

And to anyone who questioned the morality, he replied that “The Star-Spangled Banner” was the greatest piece of music ever composed.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Lead poisoning is the single biggest threat to condors and responsible for around half of all moralities.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 14, 2025

What replaced argument was a spectrum of moralities: You took a place and you occupied it.

From Washington Post Jun. 10, 2021

There is a real debate to be had – one that involves politics, ideologies, perhaps even moralities.

From The Guardian Aug. 4, 2012

They are not motivated by simple human moralities, by universalized appeals to the superego such as “good cat” or “bad cat,” by guilt culture or shame culture.

From Slate Jun. 30, 2012

Having grown separately for millennia, the Americas were a boundless sea of novel ideas, dreams, stories, philosophies, religions, moralities, discoveries, and all the other products of the mind.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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