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It is a fundamental division over whether the party should become a right-wing populist cult willing to subvert democracy to keep power.
STOP TRYING TO SAVE THE GOP. IT’S HOPELESS.JENNIFER RUBINFEBRUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Surprisingly, this fundamental assumption had yet to be tested in an experimental study.
CAGED HEAT: MESQUITE BUGS BATTLE IN A PLASTIC CUP—FOR SCIENCE!JENNIFER OUELLETTEFEBRUARY 11, 2021ARS TECHNICA
If the numbers predict a rebound and the scouts’ eyes don’t see fundamental deterioration, they act.
THE NATIONALS, LIKE THE REST OF US, WANT TO FORGET ABOUT 2020. THAT MIGHT BE PRETTY SMART.THOMAS M. BOSWELLFEBRUARY 10, 2021WASHINGTON POST
In other words, because AI mimics the brain, which has a completely alien structure to modern computers, there’s a fundamental incompatibility.
THIS ‘QUANTUM BRAIN’ WOULD MIMIC OUR OWN TO SPEED UP AISHELLY FANFEBRUARY 9, 2021SINGULARITY HUB 
Ward has found mathematical commonalities in different contexts and believes something fundamental could be going on behind the scenes.
BRAIN’S ‘BACKGROUND NOISE’ MAY HOLD CLUES TO PERSISTENT MYSTERIESELIZABETH LANDAUFEBRUARY 8, 2021QUANTA MAGAZINE
The fundamental role of any school system is to educate children, and on that core level, Marten has succeeded where many others have failed.
AS SUPERINTENDENT, CINDY MARTEN SUCCEEDED WHERE OTHERS FAILEDMEL KATZFEBRUARY 5, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
Like many of the strongest films at Sundance this year, “Summer of Soul” served as a reminder of the time-honored fundamentals that have always made movies worth watching.
EVEN IN A WORLD TURNED UPSIDE-DOWN AND AN ALL-VIRTUAL SUNDANCE, THE MOVIES SURVIVEDANN HORNADAYFEBRUARY 5, 2021WASHINGTON POST
We have to varying degrees absorbed the fundamental lesson of Sontag’s book — that we must disconnect ideas about illness from moralism — so it was hard to know what to do when covid tested our national, moral character.
THE VIRUS CAUSED MORE THAN A PANDEMIC. IT SET US ALL ABLAZE.PHILIP KENNICOTTFEBRUARY 5, 2021WASHINGTON POST
While gambling revenue has obvious appeal, it can provide only a fraction of state income and should not stand in the way of more fundamental measures to address state fiscal problems.
SPORTS GAMBLING COULD BE THE PANDEMIC’S BIGGEST WINNERJONATHAN D. COHENFEBRUARY 5, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Along the way, they have these other more fundamental aspects of their relationship that they’re not aligned on.
THE MAKING OF ‘OPEN ROADS,’ A GAME ABOUT MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS AND ROAD TRIPSELISE FAVISFEBRUARY 4, 2021WASHINGTON POST
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WORDS RELATED TO FUNDAMENTAL

  • basal
  • basic
  • essential
  • fundamental
  • least
  • least possible
  • lowest
  • minimum
  • nominal
  • smallest
  • token
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