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fundamentally

[fuhn-duh-men-tl-ee] / ˌfʌn dəˈmɛn tl i /
ADVERB
basically
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Chief Executive Mary Barra said she thinks GM shares are fundamentally undervalued and has prioritized shareholder returns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

"If City can demonstrate the Commission fundamentally misunderstood the emails, failed to consider their proper context or reached conclusions inconsistent with other contemporaneous documents, that could amount to a material factual error," Severin added.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Netflix has fundamentally changed the way stories are made, shared and experienced around the world,” Rice said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

But experts said the unexpected diagnosis will fundamentally change the papacy in some ways.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The intuition underlying moral-uplift strategies is fundamentally sound: our communities will never thrive if we fail to respect ourselves and one another.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander


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