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groundworks

noun

plural of groundwork
as in foundations
an immaterial thing upon which something else rests they had collectively laid the groundwork for a new kind of art

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Recent Examples of groundworks Tilbury Douglas has tested the bot across various project stages but plans to deploy it even earlier, starting with foundations and groundworks. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for groundworks
  1. foundations
  2. cornerstones
  3. bases
Noun
  • When finance leaders take ownership of selecting AI tools and building the process foundations that support them, adoption can make it past the experimentation phase.
    — John Gronen, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Liu’s Met commission, with its disembodied hands, its severing and suturing of the organic and the mechanical, may be a metaphor for a civilization detached from its foundations and coming to its end.
    — Lavender Au, ARTnews.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of foundations
Noun
  • Movie theaters like ours are the economic and cultural cornerstones of communities across this great nation — in all 50 states, in cities and towns, big and small.
    — Paul Gunsky, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2026
  • In the 1950s and 1960s, suburban malls were explicitly designed as community cornerstones, complete with bustling food courts, movie theaters, arcades, and a smorgasbord of shops.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of cornerstones
Noun
  • Although Turkey maintains several bases in northern Iraq for operations against the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, the Bashiqa camp is Turkey's furthest base from its border.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
  • His 40 steals are a career high after swiping 35 bases last year.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of bases

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“Groundworks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/groundworks. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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