How to Use tenet in a Sentence

tenet

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  • Refusal to wear a mask is not a tenet of the Christian faith.
    — NBC News, 27 Aug. 2021
  • That’s a step too far for most tenets cramped in Trump’s new small-tent GOP.
    — Matt Laslo, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
  • One of the main tenets of your sign, Libra, is balance.
    — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 31 July 2023
  • Since 2020, Musk has embraced many of the online right’s core tenets.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
  • One of the core tenets of power dining, of course, is control, which omakase has in spades.
    — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2024
  • That tenet remains central to the next leg of her journey.
    — Noor Lobad, WWD, 30 July 2024
  • But, in short, his system comes down a few basic tenets.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 9 May 2023
  • And these tenets have fueled Ms. Foundation's work for the last 50 years.
    — Town & Country, 18 May 2023
  • And not to get too woo-woo, but that’s a tenet of capitalism [laughs].
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2021
  • For many men, this was already the basic tenet of dressing.
    — Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 9 May 2024
  • Once that central tenet had been introduced, the next step was to build it from there.
    — Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The goal from the get-go was never to create a one-to-one recreation, so what was that driving tenet?
    — Diego Ramos Bechara, Variety, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For most business leaders, this tenet is not the problem.
    — Esther Choy, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
  • At the end of the day, the most important tenet of a healthy, clean lifestyle is sharing with others.
    — Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2022
  • But for products like tires, that tenet doesn’t always hold.
    — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
  • Another tenet of the SFA shorts menu is to infuse the dinner with a touch of whimsy.
    — Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The first tenet is the imperative of a strong, stable Russian state.
    — Maria Snegovaya, Foreign Affairs, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Leopard print is another key tenet of the 'mob wife' style.
    — Yola Mzizi, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
  • After all, many of us didn’t learn the tenets of money management in school.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Early on in the run of Noma, foraging was a core tenet of the restaurant that helped define it in the food world.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 29 June 2021
  • One of the major economic tenets of his plan isn’t working at all right now.
    — Matt Viser and Meryl Kornfield, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • In the decades since, a huge amount of evidence has shown that some of the core tenets of what Lovelock was saying are indeed true.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • The central tenet of the central tourbillon is that there can be no central hands.
    — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The series of sonnets centers on Galileo and the way the Catholic Church charged him with heresy for claiming the earth moves around the sun, going against the tenets of scripture.
    — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • But in many cases, the best way to build brand awareness is to focus on owned and earned media, two of the tenets of the PESO model.
    — Dan Kahn, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Harm reduction is a core tenet of public health, Bush said.
    — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Keeping it unshorn and tied up in a turban is a key tenet of his religion.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 27 May 2021
  • The following tenets of knife care are going to keep your new nakiri in tip-top condition.
    — Lauren Joseph, Bon Appétit, 17 July 2023
  • The resignation and the subsequent reckoning challenged a core tenet of Nixon’s philosophy: that the President was above the law.
    — Duncan Hosie / Made By History, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
  • State of play: Key tenets of that plan continue to be implemented as the city and county work to slash their carbon footprints and mitigate the impacts of extreme weather, often with the help of outside dollars.
    — Sam Allard, Axios, 16 Oct. 2024

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