precept
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Buffett was only applying a precept set down by his investment mentor, Benjamin Graham, in his classic primer “The Intelligent Investor.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
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
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
He joins Barron’s editors Lauren Rublin and Andrew Bary today at noon to discuss the current market climate, precepts of value investing, and some of his favorite stocks.
From Barron's ● Mar. 23, 2026
These aren’t abstract legal theories; they are fundamental precepts of our federalist system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
The organization’s refusal to change from its founding precepts is what makes those precepts sacrosanct to some and archaic to others.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2025
At Facebook, Wynn-Williams writes, she’ll see those precepts “tested, chewed up, and thrown aside.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
King Louis lost Lombardy, therefore, by not following any of the precepts observed by others who seized territories and wished to retain them.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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