as in essentially
at the most basic level
All people are fundamentally the same. I disagree with some of her points, but fundamentally she's right. His plan is fundamentally different.
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Recent Examples of fundamentally
Others say that while Hamas suggests a willingness to negotiate, its position fundamentally remains unchanged.
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Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
Any possible manipulation of a knot diagram that does not fundamentally change the knot can be achieved by a series of three operations called Reidemeister moves.
—Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2025
Hal Brands, a US foreign policy expert, writes that great-power competition is fundamentally about technology.
—semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2025
In Long’s mind, the lineup is fundamentally different from this time a season ago.
—Matt Gelb, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
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Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
Any possible manipulation of a knot diagram that does not fundamentally change the knot can be achieved by a series of three operations called Reidemeister moves.
—Emma R. Hasson, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2025
Hal Brands, a US foreign policy expert, writes that great-power competition is fundamentally about technology.
—semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2025
In Long’s mind, the lineup is fundamentally different from this time a season ago.
—Matt Gelb, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fundamentally
Adverb
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This was essentially a cost-saving and simplification exercise and few alarm bells rang at the time, not least because BHP retained a standard listing on the LSE, allowing British investors to remain exposed to the business.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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Of course, some may view benching Mitchell as too severe a punishment, especially when running back Jonathan Taylor made the same mistake last year and essentially cost the Colts a playoff berth.—
James Boyd,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Their food is basically the natural Ozempic.—
H. Alan Scott,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Third is that the front office, not the manager, held an unprecedented trade deadline fire sale, gutting 40 percent of the roster, including Carlos Correa and basically the entire bullpen.—
Aaron Gleeman,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Cotton or linen blends work if treated with a water-repellant finish (like Scotchgard), while Polyester, nylon, or olefin (polypropylene) are strong, budget-friendly, and inherently stain resistant.—
Lauren Bengtson,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Oct. 2025
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Sutton doesn’t like the way LLMs are trained, with unsupervised learning from human text followed by a kind of RL using human feedback—because everything the LLM can learn is inherently limited by human knowledge and human preferences.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Fundamentally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fundamentally. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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