Sample Sentences fortenet (editor-reviewed)
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Freedom of speech is a particularly American tenet.tenet = principle belief
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A central tenet of the religion is non-violence and respect of all forms of life.
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Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food. (source)tenet = important belief
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But freedom of the will has been a well-established tenet of moral philosophy since the time of the Greeks. (source)tenet = an important belief that is part of a larger framework of beliefs
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The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. (source)tenet = belief that is part of a larger framework of beliefs
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The tenets of Pashtun men. (source)tenets = important beliefs that are part of a larger framework of beliefs
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The week before he came, we'd had a famous theologian whose words sent the students scurrying to their rooms to hassle half the night. But Caleb was like a cool wind from the north... No great theological problems. No debatable tenets. He spoke simply of... (source)tenets = important beliefs that is part of a larger framework of beliefs
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This had been a tenet of her beliefs since she was a child. (source)tenet = an important belief that is part of a larger framework of beliefs
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The industrial revolution was just starting up, and this new world would threaten everything people had known during the Enlightenment; at the same time, the new science and the new faith in science—including anatomical research, of course—imperiled many religious and philosophical tenets of English society in the first decades of the nineteenth century. (source)tenets = important beliefs that are part of a larger framework of beliefs
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'All lives are equal' is the basic tenet of Pan-Species Communism.† (source)
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Pea had been faithful to his tenets, whereas he had not.† (source)
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One such central tenet was that Jesus was both God and man.† (source)
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In any case, it was then I recognized that my own values—the tenets I hold dear as an Englishman—they are not the only, nor the best, values in existence.† (source)
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But they prized their isolation, and it was a dearly held tenet of their society that, with a few exceptions (most of which they would not actually admit to), one did not ask for anything a person did not volunteer.† (source)
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Islam was their only bridge, but Safia had almost no understanding of the tenets of jihad or even the basics of Islamic practice.† (source)
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Between them, Scarlett and Rhett had outraged every tenet of this code.† (source)
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