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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

But the trade-off of their model is "greater financial risk" in the face of change, said Forrester VP and principal analyst Charlie Dai.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

The statement said the "principal contractor" would be American company Lockheed Martin, adding that "no US funds are involved in this sale".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Anyone spending $5,000 on such speech would be required to file a state report disclosing the “name, address, occupation, employer, and principal place of business of each person that contributed $100.01 or more.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

It was the poets, not the painters, who understood what Picasso was trying to do, and the principal poet of Picasso’s circle was Apollinaire.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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 the risk of exclusion is always there, as when Walmart failed to secure Rachel McAdams to reprise her Regina George character for its ad bringing together the rest of the “Mean Girls” principals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Francois Resnais, national secretary of SNPDEN-Unsa, France's top union of school principals, criticised the timing as "bad".

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

The royal visit also coincided with the start of the Jethart Callant's Festival with the town's principals arriving on horseback to meet His Majesty.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

We brought other volunteers to help us plan the movement of the principals on the street, the expected crowd, all the starts and stops where the press would have obvious positions for video.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee


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