principal
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As team principal Alan Permane puts it, the team have "two quick guys" who are "incredibly close" in performance.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Jon Ulin, a certified financial planner and managing principal of Ulin & Co.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The Madoff scandal, in which investors lost $17.5 billion in invested principal, operated like a typical Ponzi scheme with returns to older investors paid by money from new investors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
CXMT, as a relative newcomer, "remains in a follower position regarding leading-edge technologies", James Zhao, senior principal analyst at Omdia, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
He told the principal that we could have a trash masher or we could have the Herdmans, but we couldn’t have both under one roof.
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
Among the principals, everyone—El-Sayed, Stevens, Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee—quickly got on the same team.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
The royal visit also coincided with the start of the Jethart Callant's Festival with the town's principals arriving on horseback to meet His Majesty.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
“Couture’s” three principals rarely interact with one another, but those meaningful exchanges argue that, amid the mad clatter of the everyday, a brief, unguarded moment with a stranger can be supremely restorative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
As invasive as the whole thing is, and as uncorroborated by the principals as it remains, it is formally a big deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
“There were also several times I thought about sassing adults back, mostly teachers and principals at school. And I didn’t trust God on two occasions.”
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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