rudimentary

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Anyone with even rudimentary knowledge of recent history would have known this was likely.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

Those early demonstrations were rudimentary, with the drones able to fly together at a set distance and little else.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

"I just took a very rudimentary, basic kit with me," he says.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 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

Structurally—this somewhat rudimentary argument went—Marxism was a simple substitute for Christianity.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy