cornerstone
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"We didn't start with any assumptions about strings at all, but then the solution contained the cornerstone signatures of strings."
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the right to protest was "a cornerstone of our democracy".
From BBC • May 16, 2026
IBM: As a cornerstone of the quantum ecosystem, Big Blue offers cloud-based access to its vast quantum fleet and maintains Qiskit, an open-source development kit enabling users to build quantum computing programs.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Consumers are the cornerstone of the American economy, and their spending has generally held up well so far this year despite rising prices and sluggish hiring in the labor market.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Dr. Gazzaley says that attention is also “absolutely critical for all high-level functioning,” a cornerstone of what it means to be human.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
Vocabulary lists containing cornerstone
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