basic principles
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Per the World Health Organization, a healthy diet is made up of four basic principles: adequacy, balance, moderation and diversity.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
“I think folks are catching on that it is time to go back to diversification and basic principles of investing,” he says.
From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026
Working with me, they soon understood my basic principles of player care, and little was left to chance.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
One of the basic principles of long-term investing is asset allocation: putting a predetermined amount of money into a particular holding.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
He began to apply the basic principles of language acquisition to music learning, and called his method the mother-tongue approach.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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