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principal

[prin-suh-puhl] / ˈprɪn sə pəl /




NOUN
original amount of property either owned or owed
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A managing director in Blue Owl’s Tokyo office defected to Benefit Street Partners, while a managing director in institutional funds went to Pimco and a principal in the private-wealth unit took a job at KKR.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

The school principal did not respond to an AFP request for comment.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

I was able to ask Nancy Gates, Boldin’s financial experience principal and education manager, how you could approach this decision.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

Sebastian Rucci, principal developer of the Imperial Valley data center, said he will fight for his project to move forward and that there’s an environmentally sound way to do it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

I’m popping one in my mouth as I see a flash of bright pink go by in the hall behind my principal.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

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

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

To scratch that fully voyeuristic itch, we often have to wait for merger and dealmaker principals to talk for themselves: the sit-down broadcast interviews; the expansive anecdotes from a panel stage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

There have been some concerns this will place more pressure on school principals and teachers who are SEN coordinators in schools.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 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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