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Six example sentences with precept, each labelled with its topic.
Kant offered a single precept that any student can test: act only as you would have everyone act.
Philosophy
The founder printed one precept on every wall: never promise a customer a date the factory has not confirmed.
Business
Every coach in the gym repeats the same precept: add weight only after your form survives the last set.
Fitness
First, do no harm is the precept every medical student hears in the opening week and argues about ever after.
Medicine
Form follows function was the precept of the school, and its students learned to justify every ornament or remove it.
Architecture
Taste as you go is the first precept of the kitchen, and the cooks who skip it season everything at the end.
Cooking
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- MajorTests SAT 1000
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