Former CIA director George

The answer

TENET

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TENET answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for TENET

Every other clue in this collection answered by TENET, most used first.

• Doctrine - used 234 times, most recently in 2026
• Belief - used 191 times, most recently in 2026
• Principle - used 183 times, most recently in 2026
• Basic belief - used 87 times, most recently in 2026
• Core belief - used 76 times, most recently in 2026
• Article of faith - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
• Basic principle - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• Dogma - used 54 times, most recently in 2023
• Precept - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
• Palindromic principle - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
• Guiding principle - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Religious doctrine - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
• Religious belief - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Core principle - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Credo - used 19 times, most recently in 2011
• Religious principle - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Creed - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Fundamental belief - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Fundamental principle - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Moral principle - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Something to believe in - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Group belief - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Palindromic belief - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
• Words to live by - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
• Opinion - used 11 times, most recently in 2004
• Principle of faith - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Conviction - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
• Position - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
• Group principle - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
• Guiding belief - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Ism - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Believe it! - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Bit of dogma - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Maxim - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Palindromist's dogma - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
• Postulation - used 6 times, most recently in 2014

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