How to Use fundamentally in a Sentence

fundamentally

adverb
  • Price has countered that the recall is fundamentally undemocratic and represents an attempt to overthrow the will of the voters.
    Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
  • But Cramer rebuked negative theses for some of the stocks that saw losses, saying some of the companies are fundamentally solid.
    Julie Coleman, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
  • End of carousel The truth is that AI is fundamentally bad at many tasks.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • But just to talk finances, the game has so fundamentally changed.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The Portland Sea Dogs won, but that’s not why, fundamentally, the fans went home happy.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 11 July 2023
  • The Biden administration has said that the cut won’t fundamentally change what the IRS can do over the next few years.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The rules could fundamentally change the way Americans buy and sell homes.
    Samantha Delouya, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
  • But the advent of body-camera video promised to fundamentally change how the agency worked.
    Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023
  • So, this is all about restoring a process that will fundamentally change things back to what was working.
    Ellis Kim, CBS News, 6 June 2023
  • But data does allow for a peek at what fundamentally makes a ski hill great.
    Tom Corrigan, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Will the type of student drawn to New College fundamentally change?
    Patricia Mazzei, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Two types of aerospike engines—toroidal and linear—differ in shape (as their names suggest), but fundamentally work in the same way.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2023
  • That could fundamentally change how some of them work—and how Google monetizes them.
    WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The higher costs also fundamentally changed what tenants will be able to live in the complex.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2024
  • However, the landscape of the war has fundamentally changed since last year.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • That fundamentally remakes the campaign universe in a state that was always a stretch for Democrats.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 8 Oct. 2024
  • This points to how the map of our body is fluid, fundamentally shaped by physical experience as well as how the mind sees the body.
    Chip Colwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • To some candidates’ dismay, some counties fundamentally agreed with the use of the line.
    Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Sep. 2024
  • That fundamentally changes the nature of the challenge.
    Ally Schweitzer, NPR, 8 May 2024
  • Sims argued the school would fundamentally change if the charter was dissolved, and asked whether there was a less extreme option.
    Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The ways in which humans trade power and influence are still fundamentally the same.
    Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The Italian Knitwear Scion created the brand with a fundamentally female point of view.
    Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Yet that fact doesn’t change the experience of a piece that can sometimes be moving but that, in the end, feels fundamentally static.
    An Epic Set, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The front spring rates are stiffer, but fundamentally the suspension package is the same as other Raptors.
    Carlos Lago, Car and Driver, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The present state of America is fundamentally opposed to the principles from which it was born.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024
  • Aquarius Rising Not to sound too dramatic, but the shifts that take place in March will fundamentally change your life from this point onward.
    Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Well, a car that is easier to maneuver, place, and push through traffic is a car that is fundamentally safer.
    Brett Berk, Good Housekeeping, 4 Apr. 2023
  • And both stories are fundamentally about how love begins, and what happens to it after that.
    Marion Winik, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • The review board found the court-martial cases were so fundamentally unfair that all the convictions should be set aside.
    Reuters, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Stepping into that spotlight has changed me fundamentally in the best ways.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024

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