principle
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Pulte has not publicly advanced this principle recently.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
Cooper said the "Essential Energy Guarantee" was based on the principle that "every household should be able to afford energy".
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Producers agreed to “a principle strongly favoring human performances” and that producers would only use a synthetic if it “brings significant additional value to the motion picture.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Many have gone so far as to apply the precautionary principle here too: the burgeoning field of AI welfare is devoted to figuring out if and when we must care about machines.
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
Discovered in the mid-1920s by German physicist Wolfgang Pauli, the exclusion principle states, roughly, that no two things can be in the same place at the same time.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing principle
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The SAT: Language of the Test, List 6
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade 11)
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