precept
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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
Comments below the video were largely supportive: "Your past does not define who you are," wrote one fan, a core American precept if ever there was one.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025
Hirst has also proposed increasing its council tax precept - which would mean a 5.66% rise for Band D properties, equivalent to 27p per week.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2025
From them, he says, he internalized the feminist precept that “the personal is political.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024
If men were all good, this precept would not be good.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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