fundamental
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The issue centers on the inductive effect, a fundamental idea in structural organic chemistry used to describe how atoms influence the distribution of electrons within molecules.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
"We need clear EU rules to protect and strong enforcement to make sure new technologies don't come at the expense of our fundamental rights," she said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Indeed, the most fundamental American value is freedom: the freedom to think how we want, to pray how we want, to speak freely.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Chinese companies haven’t denied that they engage in distillation, but earlier this year, a Moonshot executive told local media that the company’s Kim K3 achieved “breakthrough performance” due to fundamental innovations, not distillation or copying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Galileo’s first venture into astronomy was to insist that parallax measurements proved that the nova of 1604 was in the heavens, and this was still an argument of fundamental importance to him in 1632.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing fundamental
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
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Mahatma Gandhi's "Quit India" Speech
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