principle

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Samuelson urged her colleagues to stand strong: “There are times when you need courage; stand on principle even if you stand alone.”

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

Producers agreed to “a principle strongly favoring human performances” and that producers would only use a synthetic if it “brings significant additional value to the motion picture.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected way the immune system can attack cancer, a finding that challenges a long-standing principle in immunology and could lead to new approaches for cancer treatment and bone marrow transplantation.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

The principle that chips roughly double in power every two years has been the industry’s North Star since the 1960s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

He and his followers believed that numbers were the ruling principle of the universe, and that musical harmonies were a basic expression of the mathematical laws of the universe.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones