fundament

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“Sand is the fundament of all the major new technologies of our time,” he points out, “the material from which we make the microelectronics inside our computers, robots, and networks, among other things.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But in the spring and autumn, it changes much more quickly, giving these seasons a more ephemeral feel that isn’t just in your head but rooted in our world’s deepest fundaments.

From Scientific American

Banks is at her least evasive in the introduction, where she argues that sociality is baked into the fundaments of life: “We may die alone but we were never born alone.”

From Washington Post

He said, “This is just another example of the BBC disappearing up its own fundament.”

From Washington Post

Not only did l’Hôpital explain the fundaments of calculus in his textbook, he also included some exciting new results.

From Literature