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

He used engineering principles and a highly disciplined, top-down culture to remake the operating style of Exxon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

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

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

California state law defines a “law enforcement gang” as a group of officers “who engage in a pattern of on-duty behavior that intentionally violates the law or fundamental principles of professional policing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Aristotelian philosophy had been based on the idea that one ought to be able to deduce sciences from generally accepted first principles, so that all science would be comparable to geometry.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton