dignity
Example Sentences
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“While Joe was in office, I think he and I both erred on the side of silence, dignity and letting news cycles run their course,” she writes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
Instead of blanket-dismissing tech entrepreneurs or wholesale manifesting a god in the machine, Pope Leo has sought a careful, studied, moral middle ground: one that encourages technological progress but upholds human dignity above all.
From Slate • May 28, 2026
He loved Him with his whole heart, and we thought about the unimpeachable dignity of that and what an amazing gift it would be — to believe and never doubt.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Collectively, they are attacks on basic principles and norms of democracy, civility, decency, equality, fairness, and dignity that American civic life nominally rests on.
From Salon • May 26, 2026
By the time Barack and I climbed back in, the two girls were breathless and laughing, having released themselves from all ceremonial dignity.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Vocabulary lists containing dignity
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
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