rule
Example Sentences
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THE RULE: You need a 20% down payment to buy a house.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2022
THE RULE: Don’t spend more than 7% of your household income on child care.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2022
"UNWRITTEN RULE" Varin, who previously ran Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus, joined Peugeot in 2009 and has steered the company through the worst of the six-year European auto market slump.
From Reuters • Nov. 25, 2013
John Yeutter, a C.P.A. who teaches accounting at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Okla., offered the following example: RULE: When you buy a bond, you have to pay taxes on the interest payments you receive.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2012
I pull forward one of my two blank cards and write in big block letters an unbendable, sharp-cornered David-word: RULE.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
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