precept

Example Sentences

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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

Police budgets are made up of funding from both central government and local government and the increase assumes a rise in the police council tax precept, Treasury documents suggest.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2025

Council tax includes a so-called police precept, which helps fund services such as regular community policing.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2025

From them, he says, he internalized the feminist precept that “the personal is political.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024

As we did what he told us to do, he said: “Okay, so who can tell me what a precept is? Does anyone know?”

From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio