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principal

[prin-suh-puhl] / ˈprɪn sə pəl /




NOUN
original amount of property either owned or owed
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The Chinese telecommunications company set a long-term target for its intelligence service revenue to make up more than 20% of principal business revenue, compared with around 13% in 1H, DBS analysts say in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

To secretly persuade his young students to put on a musical about the horrors of 9/11 and its aftermath that’s certain to cause controversy and get the principal in trouble.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

"For every person under 18, the platforms must follow the principal of safety by design, no toxic or addictive features, no traps, etc," she said.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

The research is based on observations from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft and was led by SwRI Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern, principal investigator of the New Horizons mission.

From Science Daily Sep. 17, 2026

The principal makes an announcement, just before lunch, about safety and asks us to walk in pairs, as if that will help.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

To scratch that fully voyeuristic itch, we often have to wait for merger and dealmaker principals to talk for themselves: the sit-down broadcast interviews; the expansive anecdotes from a panel stage.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

Francois Resnais, national secretary of SNPDEN-Unsa, France's top union of school principals, criticised the timing as "bad".

From Barron's Aug. 24, 2026

Count on it if athletic directors and principals don’t take their jobs seriously to give scrutiny to transfer paperwork and make home visits.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Among the principals, everyone—El-Sayed, Stevens, Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee—quickly got on the same team.

From Slate Aug. 8, 2026

We brought other volunteers to help us plan the movement of the principals on the street, the expected crowd, all the starts and stops where the press would have obvious positions for video.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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