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Buffett was only applying a precept set down by his investment mentor, Benjamin Graham, in his classic primer “The Intelligent Investor.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

In a sprawling nation founded on the precept of individual liberty and populated primarily by immigrants from around the world, there was hardly one American experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026

"This includes projected spending from additional income, including estimated funding from the police council tax precept," the documents say.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2025

While generally true, the precept doesn’t hold in the case of playwright Athol Fugard, whose body of work helped transform the history of his nation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025

This is what I wrote: This precept means that we should be remembered for the things we do.

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio

He joins Barron’s editors Lauren Rublin and Andrew Bary today at noon to discuss the current market climate, precepts of value investing, and some of his favorite stocks.

From Barron's ● Mar. 23, 2026

Yet in recent years Heritage has drifted from these precepts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

The organization’s refusal to change from its founding precepts is what makes those precepts sacrosanct to some and archaic to others.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2025

Even Aristotle, who could be said to have launched literary criticism, set forth the precepts of tragedy by empirically studying the indelible examples of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

One can see Ernest Lawrence’s career as a recapitulation of Swann’s precepts in action.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik