fundament
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And fundament is an old euphemism for “buttocks.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
Stevo Pendarovski, president of North Macedonia, called peace “the fundament of everything.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2023
The Princeton-based composer, 32, collapses perceptions between East and West, electronic and acoustic, fundament and future.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2022
Since the Renaissance, the fundament of Western civilization has been an embrace of rationalism, which has become foundational to governance, economics and technology.
From Salon ● May 3, 2020
We have constructed the edifice of our modern civilization upon the fundament of wisdom that had been built at great pains by the people of the ancient world.
From Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
