tenet

Some were talking about Q, repeating and promoting the core tenets of the conspiracy theory.

Charter schools, rejecting the tenet of promotion through seniority, promised to do better.

The court will not “inquire into the validity of a religious tenet.”

We might call this a central tenet of the right, although the word tenet dignifies it too much.

Second, the decision goes against a basic tenet of academia: judgment of an argument should be based on its merit alone.

Shortly before Sept. 11, then–CIA director George Tenet said it would be “a terrible mistake” to use a weapon like the Predator.

Mastrius (loco jam citato) tenet inseminationem esse necessariam.

Pleasure they regarded as an evil, having a tendency to enchain man to earthly enjoyments, a peculiarly Buddhist tenet.

Of this doctrine, considered as a philosophical tenet, we shall have occasion to speak more fully in the concluding Book.

For three generations at least this tenet in favour of long noses had gradually been taking root in our family.

Then, in his own pleasant parlour, he engaged in fervent discourse on his favourite tenet of Christian assurance.