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principle

[prin-suh-puhl] / ˈprɪn sə pəl /


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This is a basic principle: If AI lowers the cost of routine work, it raises the value of everything else.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 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

Samuelson urged her colleagues to stand strong: “There are times when you need courage; stand on principle even if you stand alone.”

From Salon • Jun. 6, 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

These scholars present science as being about rhetoric, persuasion and authority because the symmetry principle obliges them to assume that that is all it can be about.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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