principal
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“I’ll put the odds of a deal in the next 10 days at 90%,” says Brian McCarthy, managing principal of Macrolens, a boutique investment-research firm in Massachusetts.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026
“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
While the cost of renewables plays a part, the principal driver for this is, ironically, gas itself.
From BBC • 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
So the hall was full of kids, and teachers calling to Miss Newman, “What happened? What happened?” and the principal telling everyone to “Move along, move right along. Nothing here to see.”
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
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