virtuous
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The Framers understood that, even for the most virtuous, receipt of favors creates a predisposition to do favors in return.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
We need freedom to be virtuous, the fusionists argued, and we require virtue to live happily and freely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
September carrots can look almost too virtuous at the farmers market: sturdy bunches, feathery green tops, dirt in the creases.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
“It’s really kind of a virtuous cycle there.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
What life had made him bear, her lover, this wild, unhappy boy, many another stronger and more virtuous man might not have borne so well.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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