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principal

[prin-suh-puhl] / ˈprɪn sə pəl /




NOUN
original amount of property either owned or owed
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UC San Diego helped establish the observatory, and Brian Keating, a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the university, serves as its principal investigator.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

Margaret confronts the principal and tells him that Carrie was rattled by the drill and that the whole exercise is traumatizing to students.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Nicholas G. Miller reports on the buyers scrambling to pay down principal or trim household expenses to survive the spike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

On Sunday, team principal Toto Wolff said Russell had struggled in Austin to get the right set-up on the Mercedes with the new upgrade package, which has been problematic since it was introduced in Malaysia.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

And the principal says there's no money in the budget to buy more.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

And the union representative for school principals, Nicolas Bonnet, told broadcaster franceinfo that "to get out of this crisis, we will need something more than simple consultation periods".

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

But principals have told BBC News NI that it is not straightforward for schools to cut heating costs.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The principals settled on hosting Collins for a publicity event at Navatek’s Maine headquarters in August 2019, where she posed for pictures with Kao and a model of the company’s experimental boat.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

But teachers and principals don’t need a cue from on high to experiment, and they shouldn’t have to fill out reports every time they want to try something new.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

First, Pendleton and Van Ness agreed that both principals fired their weapons.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis


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