right and wrong
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How can anyone live like this, so doubtful about what is right and wrong?
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
“The issue is whether at the time she killed Cora, Dawson and Callan, she knew the difference between right and wrong, and whether she could conform her behavior to the requirements of the law.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Psychiatrists described him as neurotic, with a tendency to ruminate and worry, and said he had developed a "rigid sense of right and wrong".
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
"This isn't really about winners and losers. It's about restoring fairness and putting right and wrong, genuine and fake, back into their proper place."
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
In a similar manner, centuries of respectable writers have gradually shifted the collective consensus of what is right and wrong while shrugging off now-forgotten edicts by self-appointed guardians of the language.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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