Example Sentences

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Nathaniel Russo, a junior and teaching assistant for the popular Principles of Economics course, walked into his dorm room to study for finals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

ESG “showed strong market-relative and absolute performance in the decade prior to 2022,” finds Michal Bartek, a researcher at Principles for Responsible Investment.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

Few probably remember Blinken declaring his Tokyo Principles - least of all the Trump administration, which immediately jettisoned them.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025

Downtown L.A. streetwear brand Undisputed Principles has put out a line of fundraising shirts printed with actual photos of the fires and the words “Los Angeles: Together, We Rise Above the Flames.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025

He retired for two years of intensive reflection and scribbling, and at length produced his masterwork: the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica or Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, better known as the Principia.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson