fundament
Example Sentences
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This bygone Manhattan that Tom Wolfe could only satirize in “The Bonfire of the Vanities” is the fundament to any understanding of what makes Trump tick.
From Washington Post
It could also be a sign that he realizes his posture toward Moscow is “not rooted on stable fundaments,” said Daniel Hegedus, a fellow for Central Europe at the German Marshall Fund.
From Seattle Times
It depends, to a degree, on learning the fundaments of dressing before pitching them.
From New York Times
The Princeton-based composer, 32, collapses perceptions between East and West, electronic and acoustic, fundament and future.
From Washington Post
“I don’t think the moves are based on any kind of financial fundaments for the stock.”
From Reuters
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