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tenet

[ten-it, tee-nit] / ˈtɛn ɪt, ˈti nɪt /


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But Sumrall and Whitt believe in an old-school tenet of the gridiron.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

That is a key tenet of how the stock market works.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

That sentiment is a key tenet of El Temach's messaging - but he did not always hold these views, according to his sister Alex.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

Lula, who is seeking a fourth term in October elections, has made the fight against deforestation a central tenet of his administration.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

That’s tenet four of the B-Prep honor code, isn’t it?”

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

The breakthrough model demonstrated one of the central tenets underpinning the AI boom: that capabilities would increase when models were trained on more data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

But I think about two core tenets of my faith.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

In the basement of St. Boniface Church in Anaheim on weekday afternoons and weekend mornings in the mid-1990s, my sister, about 20 other teenagers and I learned about the tenets of our faith.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

A worksheet given to us asks us to interpret some core tenets, as well as to enter the reading with a question we would like to explore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Over the course of his life, Wesley traveled ceaselessly among these groups, covering as much as four thousand miles a year by horseback, reinforcing the tenets of Methodist belief.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell


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