foundational
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These are foundational building blocks of deliciousness, no less worthy because they happen to arrive in powdered form.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
That’s because large enterprises depend on a range of products in IBM’s “layered” software portfolio — from its foundational operating systems to the data tools that run on top of it, he explained.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026
Gates walks the group through the foundational concept that real estate can act as a hedge against inflation because of the ability to adjust short-term lease rates upward, protecting investors’ purchasing power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
Video games like “Half-Life,” “Portal” and “Minecraft” were foundational influences for Parsons, who first started filming videos as a child using his parents’ tablets and cellphones.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
The result, a compact treatise titled Generation of Animals, would serve as a foundational text for human genetics just as Plato’s Republic was a founding text for political philosophy.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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