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fundamentally

[fuhn-duh-men-tl-ee] / ˌfʌn dəˈmɛn tl i /
ADVERB
basically
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The disclosure, released Tuesday by Democratic US Senator Richard Blumenthal, describes the project as "secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed" and warns that insufficient testing could lead to "catastrophic failure."

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

The ambitious capital-expenditure plans and expensive market valuations of AI companies are fundamentally at odds with the revenue growth these companies can generate and the actual data-center utilization currently being witnessed.

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

Amazon responded by saying the FTC "fundamentally misunderstands how advertisers operate".

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

Their model describes a computational tug of war between two fundamentally different kinds of neural organization, both of which are established even before birth.

From Science Daily Aug. 31, 2026

And they were little boys, therefore fundamentally uncommunicative, with no gift for intimacy, and worse, they had diluted their identities, for she had never found this missing triangle of flesh.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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