How to get the SID of a Security Principal with Powershell

This Powershell code snippet easily displays the SID of a Windows Security Principal:

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$principal = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount("builtin\Administrators")
$principalSID = $principal.Translate([System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier]).Value 
$principalSID

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