groundwork
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So while we acknowledge and applaud the groundwork put in by those early jetsetters, this week we're looking at the best British exports since the turn of the century.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The scientific groundwork for the treatment began at UVM's Cancer Center around 2015.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
But perhaps because of the groundwork the two had laid, those emails largely weren’t complaints but rather “these memory lane kind of conversations” about, for example, peoples’ relationships with their gear and the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
“We’re laying the groundwork for what’s probably going to be another fourth-quarter rally,” he said, adding, “I’m still pretty upbeat about the fundamentals.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
I quit selecting certain of my New York brothers and giving them money to go and lay groundwork for new mosques in other cities—because slighting remarks were being made about “Malcolm’s ministers.”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
