principles

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These highly volatile funds are designed for active, short-term traders, not long-term investors, and run counter to diversification principles.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

The master plan fills in that concept with extensive detail, historical data, environmental guidelines and design principles.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

The connectome may also reveal basic principles that apply to nervous systems across species, including humans.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

He did more than any other academic, and perhaps more than anyone in the past 50 years, to sustain the memory and importance of the Revolution and its principles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

The very idea of a book about ‘origins’ seems to them contrary to the principles he established in The Whig Interpretation of History.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton