basic idea
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Watts, who had previously worked on Planet Earth and The Sarah Jane Adventures, pitched to work on the programme with only a basic idea of the set-up.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The basic idea is similar to running a wet finger around the rim of a wine glass.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
The basic idea is these computers are now advancing technology and processing time and speed at an arc that is not commensurate with the arc of technological advancement over the past 100 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
Those kinds of things certainly didn’t come in the DNA, but the basic idea of liking to make people happy was.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
The basic idea of GUTs is as follows: as was mentioned above, the strong nuclear force gets weaker at high energies.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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