foundational
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This week, Gov. Gavin Newsom called on mortgage companies to better support fire victims, calling “survivors’ ability to access the insurance coverage they’ve paid for ... foundational to recovery.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
"These findings are particularly concerning because persistence is foundational to skill acquisition and is one of the strongest predictors of long-term learning," the authors wrote.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
In his new book, Turing's Mistake: Escaping the Yoke of Unintelligent Machines, Denning argues that two foundational assumptions made by Turing in 1950 continue to shape AI research today.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Mark Joseph Stern: That all adds up to absolutely foundational restructuring of how government works.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
In this sense, statistics is to probability as engineering is to physics—an applied science based on a more intellectually stimulating foundational discipline.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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