rudimentary

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For now, though, Londoners are falling victim to more rudimentary scams at an alarming rate, Rory Innes, chief executive of The Cyber Helpline, said.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

Until high school, I didn’t speak a lick of any language other than English — save for some rudimentary Spanish counting and what little of Spanish and French that kids pick up through the media.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026

Cowork’s launch demos were rudimentary, but it isn’t hard to see where these things could go, replacing software functions and making some of them obsolete.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

On reading exams, a third of high-school seniors scored “below basic,” the bottom threshold, and nearly half lacked the ability to perform rudimentary math computations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026

Sturtevant’s rudimentary genetic map would foreshadow the vast and elaborate efforts to map genes along the human genome in the 1990s.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee