- plural of doctrine.
doctrines
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Circuit was the one that was really making tons of law around these areas, tons of doctrines and administrative law to guide the agencies without blocking them.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
The Smithian doctrines of 1776 live mainly today between the covers of dusty books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
In the two decades since, Purcell has become one of election law’s most invoked doctrines.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
The Justices often prefer incremental rulings that move legal doctrines a little at a time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
The new doctrines arose partly because of the accumulation of historical knowledge, and the growth of the historical sense, which had hardly existed before the nineteenth century.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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