rudiments
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The veterans coached me on the rudiments of the game; I learned how to split aces, I learned to never double down on 12.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025
Mr. Persico sides with scholars who find the rudiments of natural rights in the medieval period.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
Last year, for example, Hanna and colleagues grew such cells into embryo mimics that sported a beating heart, the rudiments of a brain and spinal cord, and incipient muscles.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 16, 2023
Second fundamental term: académie, noun, French, a depiction of a nude model, made from life by an art student mastering the rudiments of painting and drawing.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023
When it seemed there was a chance of him surviving after all, his father began to teach him the rudiments of education, intending him to have a career in the church.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Vocabulary lists containing rudiments
"A Modest Proposal," Vocabulary from the satire
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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
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"Thomas Jefferson: The Best of Enemies" by Ron Chernow
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