elemental
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She collects material from other places, too, like dirt from her daughter’s preschool yard or sand from local beaches — anything elemental that “will really alchemize and change form in the kiln.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
By measuring those signals and comparing them with known elemental signatures, researchers can determine what a world is made of.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
The seventh song, Yeah, is a textbook example of tension and release in pop music - that strips the idea down to its most elemental form.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
There’s something far more elemental worth worrying about: the danger of cuteness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Once he got to Chicago, he grasped another elemental lesson: All geek jobs aren’t alike.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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