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foundational

[foun-dey-shuh-nl] / faʊnˈdeɪ ʃə nl /










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Over the past two years, Roshni Kakaiya, a San Diego–based family medicine doctor, has created a training model that lets clinicians easily practice paracervical blocks—education she believes should be foundational for anyone in women’s health.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2026

He and Erkılıç have achieved international acclaim for their team’s decades of foundational experimentation collaborating with dataset intelligences at the AI frontier, as well as for architecturally-scaled, narratively engaged visual embodiments of abstract technological constructs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Work started on the castle in 1215, the same year as Magna Carta, the foundational declaration of English liberty, was signed.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

“By scaling its investments, the company seeks to expand its foundational infrastructure to support the significant growth opportunity ahead,” Alphabet said in Monday’s news release.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

In this sense, statistics is to probability as engineering is to physics—an applied science based on a more intellectually stimulating foundational discipline.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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