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principal

[prin-suh-puhl] / ˈprɪn sə pəl /




NOUN
original amount of property either owned or owed
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Surely there are many great anecdotes about the creation of the Apple Watch, Vision Pro and the rise of Apple’s in-house chip-design group, all of which will come out when the principals involved have retired.

From The Wall Street Journal

And team principal Adrian Newey revealed that all the problems had left their legendary driver Fernando Alonso in a "hard mental place".

From BBC

The supporting characters, not including Mr. Dunster and Ms. Clive, only because they qualify as principals.

From The Wall Street Journal

He was named California principal of the year by the National Association of Secondary School Principals in 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal

"As physicists, however, we want to understand how and why something works. So, we focused on finding fundamental, unifying principals to connect different AI methods together."

From Science Daily