How to Use in principle in a Sentence

in principle

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• Such a thing had been feasible in principle for almost two decades.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
• All of these problems could, in principle, be solved by algorithms.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026
• The new tool does it in minutes—which means, in principle, every drug can be approved two months sooner.
  — Avik Roy, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
• Chelsea and Welbeck have an agreement in principle on a two-year contract.
  — David Ornstein, New York Times, 28 July 2026
• It can, in principle, get folded into the next model update and sold back to a competitor.
  — Neda Nia, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
• Arendt’s radical claims still stand, in principle, though not for the man Adolf Eichmann.
  — Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
• Bigger eruptions eject more sulfur dioxide and, in principle, cause more cooling.
  — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 9 Aug. 2026
• An agreement in principle has now been reached, with the transfer still pending a medical for the midfielder.
  — Aston Villa, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026
• Two firms examining the same company should, in principle, reach the same opinion.
  — Amir Tarighat, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
• The problem is straightforward in principle but difficult to solve.
  — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
• Most people agree in principle that patients should direct their own lives and medical decisions.
  — Christopher Campos, STAT, 3 Aug. 2026
• What that means is that, in principle, a mountain landslide can happen anywhere that those conditions exist, Hock says.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2026
• Some of them will be only ameliorated or policed; others might be unsolvable in principle.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026
• Aston Villa have reached an agreement in principle to sign Leon Goretzka.
  — Aston Villa, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026
• Lionel Messi has reached an agreement in principle to buy Spanish second-tier side Eldense.
  — Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
• But that is, in principle, true because wavelike is the fundamental nature of matter at the microscopic level.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 Sep. 2026
• Everton have reached an agreement in principle to sign Christian Norgaard from Arsenal for a fee in the region of £7million.
  — David Ornstein, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026
• Questions around beauty and longing recur, as do keywords (such as ‘password’), names, references and scenic features, but what fascinated me most is that in principle each episode could be read as a little patchy universe on its own.
  — Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026
• Setting a price for electricity is straightforward in principle but complicated in execution.
  — Theodore J. Kury, Fortune, 14 July 2026
• Hobaiter and Dominy support this idea with half a dozen claims that could, in principle, be tested, lending some scientific credence to the idea that complex human speech was selected for in the warm glow of a crackling campfire.
  — Mike McRae 02, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026
• There is a tendency in institutional finance to treat cultural understanding as a qualitative add-on, valuable in principle but difficult to weight against hard risk factors.
  — Amer Al Ahbabi, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• Spurs reached an agreement in principle with Everton on Sunday to sign Iliman Ndiaye and for Richarlison to return to his former club in separate deals.
  — Jay Harris, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
• However, both sides agreed that talks in principle about regulation might be possible and even desirable because of the growth in the importance, but also unpredictability, of AI.
  — Rana Mitter, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2026
• The complexity of setting prices Setting a price for electricity is straightforward in principle but complicated in execution.
  — Theodore J. Kury, The Conversation, 6 July 2026
• Native traditions have repeatedly been acknowledged in principle – named, counted, formally recognized – but weakly protected in practice.
  — Kerri J. Malloy, The Conversation, 9 July 2026
• Its stablecoin ordinance, in force since August 2025, permits coins referencing any fiat currency in principle, and the city holds the world's largest offshore renminbi pool, around one trillion yuan.
  — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
• Analysts say that's partly because the deals are narrow in scope, largely exist only in principle, and don't apply to existing drugs used by the more than 200 million Americans with commercial or private health insurance.
  — Stephanie Armour, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026
• Analysts say that’s partly because the deals are narrow in scope, largely exist only in principle, and don’t apply to existing drugs used by the more than 200 million Americans with commercial or private health insurance.
  — Stephanie Armour, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026
• Newcastle United had reached an agreement in principle with Freiburg to sign Manzambi, though the midfielder had yet to decide on his preferred destination, allowing Villa to step up their interest.
  — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 17 July 2026
• Deloitte's workforce research finds finance leaders increasingly favor training their existing teams over hiring new AI-fluent talent, a sound strategy in principle but one that takes considerably longer to pay off than simply buying a new tool.
  — Anders Liu-Lindberg, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026