fundamental

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Additionally, Goldman Sachs predicts that central bank demand will remain a fundamental pillar of support, averaging about 60 metric tons monthly, once price volatility dissipates.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026

“What we’re seeing in the market today is much more about supply recovery and timing shifts than any fundamental change in consumption,” said CEO Sherman Miller on the earnings call.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

In a statement, minister Paul Givan said that "high‑quality education is fundamental to the wellbeing of our children and to the future prosperity of Northern Ireland".

From BBC • Apr. 1, 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

The new sense of the word ‘theory’ is fundamental to an understanding of what the new science claimed to do.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton