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[fuhn-duh-men-tl] / ˌfʌn dəˈmɛn tl /




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Another popular smart-beta approach is fundamental weighting, which weights stocks by economic scale, breaking the link between price and portfolio weight.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

For decades, physicists have been trying to answer a fundamental question: can electrons move like a perfectly smooth, frictionless fluid governed by a universal quantum value?

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

These incidents reveal something fundamental about how large language models work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer added: "I'm determined to make the fundamental changes needed to keep the public safe."

From BBC • Apr. 13, 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




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