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One analyst who predicted it from first principles was Joachim Klement, a managing director at U.K. investment bank Panmure Liberum.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Ilyse Hogue: I go back to first principles on a lot of the projects that I work on.

From Slate ● May 18, 2026

At the beginning of the 20th century, a new set of first principles of government was introduced into the American mainstream.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

The proponents of this new set of first principles, most prominently among them the 28th president, Woodrow Wilson, called it progressivism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Our first principles told us that Pauling could not be the greatest of all chemists without realizing that DNA was the most golden of all molecules.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson


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