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 master plan fills in that concept with extensive detail, historical data, environmental guidelines and design principles.

From Los Angeles Times • 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

Graham developed her now-familiar modernist principles for working the torso and spine, known as “contraction” and “release,” with her troupe, all female at the time, between 1927 and 1928.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Technology came first, because it is possible to make machines by trial and error without fully understanding the principles on which they operate.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin