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I accept as a basic principle that all people are precious and should be treated with equal dignity.principle = belief
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Our organization has a written list of guiding principles.principles = beliefs or rules
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She lacks principles. Her belief system depends on what advantages her in any given situation.principles = moral rules that guide behavior
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Basic rocketry principles indicate that our rocket should exceed an altitude of one mile, but we won't know that it works until we test it.principles = natural rules describing how the world works
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We agree in principle, but there are many details to work out.principle = in basic belief
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One guiding principle is that everyone should be treated fairly.principle = rule or belief
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"That's the principle that governs all things," he said. (source)principle = basic rule (of how the world works)
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Much larger than Heisenberg's principle or Godel's theorem, which everybody rattles on about. (source)principle = basic rule or belief
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It's supposed to make it easier for them to change their allegiance from family to faction—to embrace the principle "faction before blood." (source)principle = basic rule or belief
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Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher principles. (source)principles = basic rules or beliefs
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Her favorite ice cream flavor (she said she refuses to eat low-fat frozen yogurt on principle alone) is Cherry Garcia.† (source)on principle = because of a basic rule or belief
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I pictured Patch's unprincipled grin and his glittering black eyes.† (source)unprincipled = lacking or not based on basic beliefsstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unprincipled means not and reverses the meaning of principled. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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A woman who encountered him when he was a hearing officer for the Savannah Housing Authority remembered him as being highly principled.† (source)principled = with or based on basic beliefs
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Stacey was restrained from plugging T.J.'s mouth by Uncle Hammer's principle that a man did not blame others for his own stupidity; he learned from his mistake and became stronger for it. (source)principle = basic rule or belief
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I love learning about Newton and the basic principles the whole universe obeys. (source)principles = basic rules or truths
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It was hardly past noon but he was issued a beer on principle, and within minutes the man was telling his story.† (source)on principle = because of a basic rule or belief
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And these policemen were unprincipled riff-raff, they talked at me till I was sick of it, they wanted bribes, they wanted to trick me into giving them my clothes, they wanted money, supposedly so that they could bring me my breakfast after they had blatantly eaten my own breakfast in front of my eyes.† (source)unprincipled = lacking or not based on basic beliefs
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Jake's principled defense of his dead client's last will, as well as his somewhat cocky belief that the trial should be held in Clanton, in his courtroom, was severely shaken by a tragedy that occurred later that night in an ice storm near the town of Lake Village, in the southern part of Ford County.† (source)principled = with or based on basic beliefs
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