How to Use tenet in a Sentence

tenet

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The following tenets of knife care are going to keep your new nakiri in tip-top condition.
    Lauren Joseph, Bon Appétit, 17 July 2023
  • As a kid, he became mesmerized by the way Reggie Miller ran and ran and ran, and now that’s a central tenet of Curry’s game.
    Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The most prominent of these arguments is the idea — a central tenet of faith for many Catholics — that suffering is a gift.
    Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Glenn Youngkin, who made education and parental rights the central tenet of his campaign.
    Fox News, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Those tenets aren’t just about libraries but the very fabric of how a nation functions as a democracy, Kresh said.
    Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The Nation of Islam’s central tenet is that Jews swindled black people out of their birthright as God’s chosen.
    Abe Greenwald, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Both capture the key tenets of cute: being unthreatening and adorable.
    Zara Khan, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Williams has made prosecution of crypto fraud a central tenet of his term as Wall Street’s top cop.
    Chris Dolmetsch, Fortune Crypto, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The Perfect Pasta Pot A central tenet of pastacore is cooking your meal in one big pan.
    Carina Finn, Bon Appétit, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Drinking plenty of water has long been a tenet of good health, but the water flowing from household taps can have an off-putting taste.
    Julie Laing, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2023
  • One of their core tenets has been that almost no married couple should ever get divorced.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • For Reyes, what happened at this year’s Burning Man is actually proof that, for the most part, the festival’s tenets worked.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The movie simply repeats that basic tenet over and over, loudly and without any sense of self-consciousness.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The latter use appears to be the impetus for the change and is in keeping with the tenets of the neighborhood’s community plan, which was adopted in 2019.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2023

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