tenet

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“Fully informed transactions between buyers and sellers are a key tenet of a free market,” said a spokesperson for the Global Disinformation Index.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

For Christians, Easter is the most important date in the liturgical calendar, marking the resurrection of Christ - a central tenet of the faith.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

“You really want to lower the risk of that. Access to the market is a fundamental tenet of good, clean, fair, efficient markets,” he says.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

To achieve self-sufficiency, China has made advanced robotics a key tenet of its national strategy for technological and economic development.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

The closest I’d come to violating that tenet had been a very subtle hint—which Jesse had ignored anyway—that getting an apartment in Chicago via the Net might prove risky.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz