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principal

[prin-suh-puhl] / ˈprɪn sə pəl /




NOUN
original amount of property either owned or owed
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The catalyst for Ocon's departure from Haas was a falling-out with team principal Ayao Komatsu after Friday practice in Mexico City last weekend.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Finally, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff decided he was ready for the step up to Formula One ahead of last season and handed him the seat vacated by seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

Margaret confronts the principal and tells him that Carrie was rattled by the drill and that the whole exercise is traumatizing to students.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

“No. But your principal talked about filing a police report. Thankfully, I talked him out of it. It helped that you have never been in trouble before this,” Dad says.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

And the union representative for school principals, Nicolas Bonnet, told broadcaster franceinfo that "to get out of this crisis, we will need something more than simple consultation periods".

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

But principals have told BBC News NI that it is not straightforward for schools to cut heating costs.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

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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