basic idea
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It's an imperfect science but the basic idea to reach the net confidence number is the optimism score minus the pessimism score.
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026
Those kinds of things certainly didn’t come in the DNA, but the basic idea of liking to make people happy was.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
The basic idea is to pay tax when you’re in a lower tax bracket.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 28, 2025
Remote sensing data collected by orbiting spacecraft like those used for this study provide researchers with a basic idea of the composition of the moon's surface, according to Andrews-Hanna.
From Science Daily • Oct. 12, 2025
I replied that there was this flaw about the bubbles being bigger than the universe, but that the basic idea of a slow breaking of symmetry was very good.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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