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
While this result surprises some physicists, others see it as a natural outcome of one of the most basic principles of quantum mechanics known as unitarity.
From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026
The first scribes had to settle on basic principles that we now take for granted.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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