principal

Example Sentences

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Easter, the principal holiday of the Christian church, celebrates the resurrection of Jesus.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

“The kids are so excited to have high school students here to run the ceremony,” Maple principal Meghann O’Weger said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

"He has broken quite a lot of glass, and these things have repercussions in our microcosm," Mercedes team principal Wolff told the Press Association.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Musk, OpenAI’s then principal financial supporter, had asked Brockman and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever to make a spreadsheet listing every employee and what important contribution they had made—a classically Muskian precursor to staff cuts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

But when you see your principal so obviously shaken, it makes you think that maybe you should be more upset than you really are.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman