rudimentary

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Edgerton: I feel like I learn something about myself on every job and every time I approach a new job, I always describe it in rudimentary terms, like a toolkit.

From Los Angeles Times

In the 1970s, Zambia's recording studios were rudimentary and there was no established recording industry.

From BBC

The story is rudimentary: Elongated blue cat people prepare for a gigantic battle with the nasty, militarized, heartless, corporation-backed human colonists, or “sky people.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But the rudimentary methods used in Vietnam's craft villages produce dangerous emissions and expose workers to toxic chemicals, experts say.

From Barron's

It was so rudimentary that it was often impossible to tell what a program did from descriptions as vague as “extension No. 4” or “allocation of funds,” according to people who saw the spreadsheet.

From Salon