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elemental

[el-uh-men-tl] / ˌɛl əˈmɛn tl /


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“Possible Love” hovers over the moment’s sublimity like the moonlight and I haven’t stopped thinking about its elemental beauty since.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

But you watch these episodes, and he’s asking really elemental stuff about humanity.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

The plays of Shakespeare will always be relevant because he wrote of human beings in both their elemental goodness and darkness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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

The pervasive emptiness and stultifying summer heat were only minor deterrents when compared with the more elemental consideration that all the banking and commercial institutions were based elsewhere, chiefly in Philadelphia and New York.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis


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