elemental

Example Sentences

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Along the way, it also revealed something elemental about business success.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

Back in Cirencester, Dr David O'Connor showed me a new kind of "elemental microscope" that can be used to identify traces of dangerous elements in soil.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

Earlier studies on Rapa Nui relied on indicators such as pollen, plant remains, elemental chemistry, and how quickly sediments built up to infer past environmental changes.

From Science Daily • Feb. 10, 2026

Voting is the most elemental of democratic exercises, a virtuous act residing right up there alongside motherhood and apple pie.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

The belief that terrestrial processes were gradual had been elemental in natural history since the time of Lyell.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson