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Six example sentences with principled, each labelled with its topic.
The judge earned a principled reputation by ruling against friends of the governor who had appointed her.
Law
Her principled refusal to take the contract cost the agency a quarter of its revenue and won three better clients.
Business
A principled vegetarian will refuse the broth as well, since the reasoning does not stop at the visible meat.
Philosophy
Her principled stand against the emergency powers cost her the whip, and she voted alone from the back row afterward.
Politics
The lab's principled refusal to drop inconvenient data points delayed the paper a year and saved its reputation later.
Science
The founders made a principled choice never to sell user data, and they turned down two offers that depended on it.
Startups
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- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
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