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

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

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

California state law defines a “law enforcement gang” as a group of officers “who engage in a pattern of on-duty behavior that intentionally violates the law or fundamental principles of professional policing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Traditional equitable principles don’t require such a showing, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the Court.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Anyone who favored a strong executive was vulnerable to the charge of being a quasi-monarchist, and therefore a traitor to the republican principles of the American Revolution.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis