basic principles
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“I think folks are catching on that it is time to go back to diversification and basic principles of investing,” he says.
From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026
Working with me, they soon understood my basic principles of player care, and little was left to chance.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
While this result surprises some physicists, others see it as a natural outcome of one of the most basic principles of quantum mechanics known as unitarity.
From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026
From all of this, there’s a basic lesson to be learned: once you violate both fair treatment of prisoners and the basic principles of law, finding an unchallenged resolution to such cases is essentially inconceivable.
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2025
“They told me all I had to do was prove I mastered the basic principles of sympathy.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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