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principal

[prin-suh-puhl] / ˈprɪn sə pəl /




NOUN
original amount of property either owned or owed
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Loved ones, teachers and school principals are rejoicing.

From The Wall Street Journal

I thought that was a very important part of the firm’s mojo to be a principal.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We desperately need to understand what the baseline of human flatulence patterns are,” says Brantley Hall, the study’s principal researcher at UMD.

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One casualty of the AI spending focus, and the erosion of one of the tech sector’s principal advantages in terms of cash generation, could come in the form of shareholder returns.

From Barron's

He then labeled South Korea as its principal enemy in January 2024.

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