fundamental

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They also suggest that this single particle could provide insight into the fundamental structure of the universe.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

We give our brains a sense of autonomy, control, mastery and a way of regulating our emotions, all of which are fundamental to our mental health.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

The fundamental point, though, is that it doesn't really matter where exactly the deficit lies between car and engine.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

That sense of erasure—of something fundamental being lost beneath the surface of change—felt familiar to me.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

This discovery presented fundamental difficulties for any account of how the compass worked, but it also raised the exciting possibility that variation might be sufficiently regular for it to be used to measure longitude.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton