tenet
noun
any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.
tenets
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pluralof tenet.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“So actually it feels like we’ve made a jumbo purely out of responding to what was in front of us,” he said, “with all of the basic tenets of documentary cinema.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
The breakthrough model demonstrated one of the central tenets underpinning the AI boom: that capabilities would increase when models were trained on more data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
But I think about two core tenets of my faith.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
A worksheet given to us asks us to interpret some core tenets, as well as to enter the reading with a question we would like to explore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
With the encouragement of his brothers, he began studying the tenets of the Nation of Islam.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
