precepts

plural of precept

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Recent Examples of precepts Change is inevitable, but the rapid destruction of the basic precepts upon which our government was formed is beyond dangerous. U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
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Noun
  • During interview rounds when applicants showcase their skills through mini projects or tests, the executive values prospective hires who enhance their assignments with the tools.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
  • So, this is a story about imparting true wealth, including the intrinsic values and skills—motivation, hard work, creativity, risk-taking—that built the fortunes in the first place and that allow those who inherit to bloom.
    Christina Binkley, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Student athletes whose coaches have already departed are grandfathered in under previous rules.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2025
  • McMahon is prepared to loosen even more rules on the money.
    Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The house’s spectacle in Grand Palais and fashion show is rooted in technological, futuristic and artisanal imaginations, while experiencing a dichotomy with the reinvention of clothing, which carries a sensitive memory of the past — projecting a constellation of colors, codes and values.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Nods to Chanel’s classic codes were seen throughout, though they were modernized — boucle jackets were lighter, their silhouettes softer.
    Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In other words, as Cleveland tore through the league last season, the players responded to most of the milestones reached with a collective shrug and worn axioms about nothing mattering until the playoffs.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The hope of deriving one set of rules, or axioms, to govern all mathematical truths was fatally undermined.
    Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • What to know about city, state laws Elam said larger cities like Louisville could choose to implement a similar program to Elizabethtown but might consider hiring compliance officers outside the police force.
    Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Oct. 2025
  • After dissolving their own three-person police force, the village has struggled to find a way to enforce village laws, the mayor said.
    Erin Glynn, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Oct. 2025

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“Precepts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precepts. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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