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tenet

[ten-it, tee-nit] / ˈtɛn ɪt, ˈti nɪt /


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But Sumrall and Whitt believe in an old-school tenet of the gridiron.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

That is a key tenet of how the stock market works.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

The 9th Circuit brushed aside that logic, saying the Supreme Court had since struck down a key legal tenet of that case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

The central tenet is that you live extremely frugally during your working life, so that you can retire as soon as possible.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

That’s tenet four of the B-Prep honor code, isn’t it?”

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

But I think about two core tenets of my faith.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

“It’s such a complex, yet entertaining novel. We learned a lot about the tenets of Islam as woven into the story,” Ellyn Moscowitz shares about their book club pick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

What we need to retrieve is the three great ideals, the basic tenets of human beings, like great politics, great family and religion or spirituality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Many of the alliance’s policy tenets were rolled into 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense.

From "1984" by George Orwell


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