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tenet

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


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To the point that he and his wife, Cindy, made it a core tenet of their family.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 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

“Fully informed transactions between buyers and sellers are a key tenet of a free market,” said a spokesperson for the Global Disinformation Index.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 2026

The closest I’d come to violating that tenet had been a very subtle hint—which Jesse had ignored anyway—that getting an apartment in Chicago via the Net might prove risky.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

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

It added that her actions "were a serious departure from the standards expected from a registered nurse" while she "breached fundamental tenets of the profession".

From BBC Apr. 27, 2026

For nearly sixty years, the tenets of the treaty have been respected by all nations.

From Salon Apr. 9, 2026

But he hadn’t understood how strange it would be, how it would set every nerve in his body on edge and make him question all sorts of basic tenets about how the world worked.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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