tenet
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It’s partially powered by Google’s Gemini model in addition to the company’s own Apple Foundation Models — a departure from Apple’s central tenet of owning, not renting, its core technologies.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 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
Heifetz is grounded in her decision by a central tenet of Earthseed, the fictional religion Butler constructs in “Parable of the Sower.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
The candidates acknowledged the link between the UN's three pillars of peace, human rights and development, while emphasizing the organization's primary role in upholding the first tenet.
From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026
The new lab had inherited this tenet from its parent, Ernest Lawrence, who had experienced not a few such mishaps during his career.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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In the basement of St. Boniface Church in Anaheim on weekday afternoons and weekend mornings in the mid-1990s, my sister, about 20 other teenagers and I learned about the tenets of our faith.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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
A worksheet given to us asks us to interpret some core tenets, as well as to enter the reading with a question we would like to explore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
It added that her actions "were a serious departure from the standards expected from a registered nurse" while she "breached fundamental tenets of the profession".
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
I feel a smile maneuvering its way around my face that I resist as per the tenets of the boycott.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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