most basic
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Saunders said consumers have more flexibility in managing their budgets for clothing than they do for the most basic necessities, like food.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
An instruction set is the most basic level at which hardware and software communicate.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
At the most basic level, computer memory stores information as 0s and 1s by controlling how easily electricity can pass through a material.
From Science Daily • May 3, 2026
Their paper, “The Empirically Inscrutable Climate-Economy Relationship,” starts from the most basic question in climate economics: Can researchers actually measure how climate affects the economy from the historical record?
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
He had not even taken the most basic of steps to test the construction: filling the tank with water to check for leaks.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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