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Six example sentences with ethic, each labelled with its topic.
Aristotle asks where an ethic comes from, and answers that habit shapes character long before argument ever does.
Philosophy
The hospital's ethic of full disclosure means a doctor tells the family about the error before the family asks.
Medicine
A workplace ethic that nobody writes down still governs who answers email at midnight and who does not.
Business
Leopold argued for a land ethic, extending our sense of right and wrong to soils, waters and animals.
Environment
The laboratory's ethic requires that every failed experiment be recorded as carefully as every success.
Science
The documentary ethic forbids staging a scene, so she waited three hours for the fishermen to return.
Photography
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