conscience
Example Sentences
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He placed the onus for action on one’s conscience.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
This explains why roughly 1,200 prisoners of conscience, including some 700 arrested for participating in islandwide protests against the dictatorship on July 11, 2021, remain behind bars.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
It’s the kind of rhetoric that shocks the conscience, even in a presidency defined by shock.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026
But unlike that Oscar winner, “Two Prosecutors” has a man of conscience at its center — a confident crusader who becomes increasingly puny in the face of Stalin’s Soviet Union.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
I scratched my head as these thoughts poked at my conscience, and then I saw the bloody goop on my fingertips.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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