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tenet

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


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Those words capture the main tenet of monetarism: Sustained price inflation is always caused by excessive monetary expansion.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

There’s an old Wall Street tenet that there’s nothing more bullish than a record close.

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

Heifetz is grounded in her decision by a central tenet of Earthseed, the fictional religion Butler constructs in “Parable of the Sower.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

And that, in so many ways, was the basic tenet of German foreign policy.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Sarai’s words were simple enough, but they challenged the basic tenet of their lives: that they had an enemy.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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