principled
Example Sentences
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“The first and perhaps most important lesson,” the authors write, “is that principled cultures begin with leaders at every level.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Her family described her as "kind, principled and selfless".
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Or is it what we call avoidance when we want avoidance to sound principled?
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Jed Shugerman: There is no way a principled originalist can reconcile Slaughter and Cook, but let me try to give the best account for this.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
Declarations of principled withdrawal from the hurly-burly of politics to the natural rhythms of one’s fields or farms had become rhetorical rituals.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing principled
President Trump's Second State of the Union Address (2019)
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They Called Us Enemy
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Obama's State of the Union Address, 2014
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