elemental

Example Sentences

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Along the way, it also revealed something elemental about business success.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

Back in Cirencester, Dr David O'Connor showed me a new kind of "elemental microscope" that can be used to identify traces of dangerous elements in soil.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

No, it was something a little more elemental.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2026

Future studies of their atmospheres and elemental compositions may pinpoint the regions of the disk where they originally formed, offering deeper insight into the origins and evolution of hot Jupiters.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025

Above all, it sounded like a live creature: some monstrous, elemental being, wailing its damnation.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White