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principal

[prin-suh-puhl] / ˈprɪn sə pəl /




NOUN
original amount of property either owned or owed
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“Whether that marks the start of a rebalancing, or early anticipation of de-escalation, will be the key question for the sector in the weeks ahead,” said Kenneth Lamont, a principal at Morningstar.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

“It will get a lot easier to attack random pieces of infrastructure that no one was attacking before,” said Thomas Ptacek, a security researcher who is a principal at the cloud computing company Fly.io.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

John Keller was principal deputy chief of the Public Integrity Section from 2020 to 2025 and was acting chief when he resigned in early 2025.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026

Also important to administrators was an agreement to place boundaries on the potentially unlimited, uncompensated work expectations that accompany the job of principal and assistant principal.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Jake followed the principal into the office and his small conference room.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein




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