fundament

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Stevo Pendarovski, president of North Macedonia, called peace “the fundament of everything.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2023

The Princeton-based composer, 32, collapses perceptions between East and West, electronic and acoustic, fundament and future.

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2022

Since the Renaissance, the fundament of Western civilization has been an embrace of rationalism, which has become foundational to governance, economics and technology.

From Salon • May 3, 2020

I wish the whole James Bond thing would disappear up its own tuxedoed fundament.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2015

The well-known little herb, with its heart-shaped leaves, is a Ranunculus, and bears the affix ficaria from its curative value in the malady called ficus—a "red sore in the fundament".

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas