fundamental

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Deutsche Bank lowered its rating on Avis’s stock to hold from buy, but stressed that the downgraded “is purely fundamental in nature.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

But there’s a fundamental difference between the new oil shock and the postpandemic boom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

The fundamental issue is the 50-50 power split does not really work with this engine architecture and the current size of battery.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

But unless it resolves the deeper contradictions — unless it explains not just what is happening, but why it had to happen and how it will end — it will not change the fundamental dynamic.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2026

Gilbert, the physician and experimental scientist, had been a mathematical examiner when a fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and his fundamental goal was to prove the truth of Copernicanism.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton