principal
Example Sentences
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Both had been principal conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and also worked together on the summer Baltic Sea Festival that Salonen created with the orchestra.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
Gold-linked bonds may support government funding better through principal and interest payments, while maintaining gold levels, Gave says.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
Publicly, though, Biden’s principal stated rationale for moving the state up was to increase racial diversity in the earliest voting states and reward Black voters for their significance in the Democratic Party coalition.
From Slate • May 26, 2026
“With Visa and Mastercard, you had banks on either end who were ostensibly independent of one another,” said Aaron McPherson, now a principal at AFM Consulting who was then an analyst at IDC Financial Insights.
From MarketWatch • May 25, 2026
While they try to stick it back on the wall, the principal orders us to our homerooms.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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