principle
Example Sentences
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Evolutionary biology explains this contrast through a basic principle: energy is limited, and species must divide it between reproduction and maintaining their bodies.
From Science Daily
They plan to sign a “statement of principles” focused on getting more new energy generation onto the grid while addressing affordability, some of the people said.
Most American leaders have an additional reason, beyond protecting our long-term prosperity and constitutional principles, to support sound policy and the rule of law: They live here.
It’s easy to talk about grand principles such as democracy and rule of law—and also easy to forget that they require individual human beings to put them into practice.
This finding suggests that learning, in a broad mathematical sense, may be a shared organizing principle across physical, biological and computational systems.
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