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What does doctrine mean?

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Noun
  1. A belief or tenet, especially about philosophical or theological matters.
  2. The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group or text.
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Current doctrine falls short of identifying how best to employ Air Force capability to open airbases.
What lawyers call the doctrine of parental authority grants parents wide latitude to rear their children as they choose.
Consciences may be salved by the doctrine that the pursuit of self-interest will in fact make everyone better off.
I did not believe in God, in Jesus, in any doctrine the church holds to be true.
This accords with his foreign policy doctrine that there should be no intervention in areas where US interests are not involved.
Contrary to their claims, these writers are hardly courageous Jeremiahs crying out an unwelcome doctrine to rootless and anomic individuals.

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