ethic

Example Sentences

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We’ve worked hard for 18 years to instill a strong work ethic and teach budgeting skills, and I don’t want to see that undone.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

Tech billionaires looking to burnish their image seem to believe that the work ethic is an expendable feature of a free-market society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

You sense this in his work ethic and what it produces, an intimacy of form that implies an almost ritualistic attentiveness to the world around him on its own terms.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

Well, she's not 82, but she has that very similar work ethic.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

His code was simple New Testament ethic, its rewards were the respect and devotion of all who knew him.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee