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

No, it was something a little more elemental.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2026

Fire replaces water as the elemental character in James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

But even that landmark precedent, so crucial in establishing the republican principle of rotation in office, paled in comparison to an even more elemental political and psychological realization.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis