foundational
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To use as bargaining chips for either a big name like the Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo or, better yet, to acquire important foundational pieces to retrofit the roster around Luka Doncic?
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved Aurora’s Principal Design Criteria —a foundational rulebook for the plant’s safety and performance standards—earlier this month.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
It was both a foundational statement of principle that successive generations would invoke for varying purposes, and a physical object linking Americans with their country’s founding.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
“When physicians prioritize access to power over ethical judgment, they often break the foundational covenant of medicine,” she wrote.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
The result, a compact treatise titled Generation of Animals, would serve as a foundational text for human genetics just as Plato’s Republic was a founding text for political philosophy.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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