fundamental
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A fundamental question in recent days was whether the state’s 23.2 million registered voters, who all received mail-in ballots, were waiting to vote or if they would skip the election because of malaise.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
Charities including Mencap, Mind and the National Autistic Society have warned that the ruling "strips fundamental human rights protections from potentially hundreds of thousands of severely disabled people".
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
“It’s a fundamental change in how we’re having to operate.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
“It’s important to emphasize that our fundamental business drivers remain strong,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
The laws of medicine fit within this wider structure of laws, and the fundamental law of medicine is the ancient Hippocratic principle that opposites cure opposites—a fever is cured by cooling the body, for example.
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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Vocabulary from "Community is the 'killer app' missing from virtual reality" by Dmitri Williams
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