fundamental
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Beneath these figures, as the Journal’s Greg Ip has shown, something even more fundamental was taking place—a massive shift of national income from labor to capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
In hydrodynamics, acceleration is considered just as fundamental as vorticity, much as electric and magnetic fields are treated as equally important parts of electromagnetism.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
One fundamental observation Hsueh is keen to emphasize is that going back to 1957 and continuing to 2023, over that long time frame, gold has outperformed the U.S. consumer price index.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
O'Neill says there is "so little education that women receive about the fundamental aspects of how their bodies work".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
The laws of medicine fit within this wider structure of laws, and the fundamental law of medicine is the ancient Hippocratic principle that opposites cure opposites—a fever is cured by cooling the body, for example.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing fundamental
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
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Mahatma Gandhi's "Quit India" Speech
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