principles

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These highly volatile funds are designed for active, short-term traders, not long-term investors, and run counter to diversification principles.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

As M.M. evolves from sidekick to central character, he also begins to behave more like Butcher, forcing him to wrestle with the erosion of his idealistic principles.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

The connectome may also reveal basic principles that apply to nervous systems across species, including humans.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

He did more than any other academic, and perhaps more than anyone in the past 50 years, to sustain the memory and importance of the Revolution and its principles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Indeed it is; but the fault lies with Butterfield’s early principles, not his later practice, for we really do need to understand the origins of modern science if we are to understand our own world.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton