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fundamental

[fuhn-duh-men-tl] / ˌfʌn dəˈmɛn tl /




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But there’s also reason for investors not to worry about a lower-for-longer scenario, given that what’s fueling the weakness is more technical in nature than fundamental.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

The researchers argue that the performance collapse seen in these experiments points to fundamental limitations in today's large language models.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

It could strive to address our most fundamental problems with common-sense solutions, meaningfully improving Americans’ quality of life and raising the level of political discourse in the process.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

But Reeves said there needed to be a fundamental shift in spending across the board, with current global tensions showing the need for resilience in critical sectors.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

This discovery presented fundamental difficulties for any account of how the compass worked, but it also raised the exciting possibility that variation might be sufficiently regular for it to be used to measure longitude.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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