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The general rule for watering plants, or your lawn and garden, is to water them once a week.
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Mike Snider, USA Today, 26 May 2025
The status and respect accorded to highly visible legendary editors is the exception to the more general rule of blurry ambiguity.
—Melina Moe
may 19, Literary Hub, 19 May 2025
The general rule is, the more concise and direct users are with your prompts, the better the output will be.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
As a general rule, Cain tells teens and parents to gauge protein intake based on size — benchmarked at roughly 1 gram of protein a day per kilogram of body weight.
—Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 21 July 2025
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Mike Snider, USA Today, 26 May 2025
The status and respect accorded to highly visible legendary editors is the exception to the more general rule of blurry ambiguity.
—Melina Moe
may 19, Literary Hub, 19 May 2025
The general rule is, the more concise and direct users are with your prompts, the better the output will be.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
As a general rule, Cain tells teens and parents to gauge protein intake based on size — benchmarked at roughly 1 gram of protein a day per kilogram of body weight.
—Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 21 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for general rule
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“General rule.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/general%20rule. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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