in principle

phrase

: with respect to fundamentals

They accepted the offer in principle.

Examples of in principle in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Because the design pipeline, built on 3D modeling, cyclization and amino acid substitution, can in principle be pointed at many disease targets, success in one therapeutic area tends to pull investment into adjacent ones. — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026

Mark Sanchez has reached an agreement in principle to end the civil case against him filed by a truck driver who got into a physical altercation with the former USC and NFL quarterback last fall. — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026

Potentially containing trillions of parameters — values learned during training — frontier models require vast computing resources, largely confining them to data centers, where they can be more easily monitored and, in principle, switched off. — Robert Hart, The Verge, 14 Oct. 2026

While the experiment was conducted using an organic solar cell, Martorell said the concept could, in principle, be applied across different photovoltaic technologies. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1756, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for in principle

• principal