How to Use fundamentally in a Sentence

fundamentally

adverb
  • The search for alien life is fundamentally a data sorting challenge.
    Georgina Torbet, The Verge, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The reason, according to one present-day physicist, is that energy is fundamentally about relationships—just like pi!
    WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Food is fundamental to life—nourishing body and soul—so how it’s accessed, prepared and consumed can change societies fundamentally.
    Patrick Lin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Food is fundamental to life – nourishing body and soul – so how it’s accessed, prepared and consumed can change societies fundamentally.
    Patrick Lin, Professor Of Philosophy, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
  • If one of the patents is successfully disputed, perhaps the others in the family (which are fundamentally the same, barring some small tweak) should no longer stand either.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The problem of understanding and working with language is fundamentally different from that of working with images.
    Haomiao Huang, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Martínez Ahrens told me that the Mexican newsroom fundamentally changed the paper’s coverage of the region.
    Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Underneath this policy lies a belief that Putin is fundamentally an opportunist.
    Peter Schroeder, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2024
  • End of carousel The truth is that AI is fundamentally bad at many tasks.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • More than any other director, Spielberg confounds the notion that the personal and the popular, or the technician and the artist, are fundamentally at odds.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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