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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Feynman came of age during the dawn of quantum mechanics, when scientists began to recognize that atoms, electrons, light, and other sub-nanoscale objects—building blocks for everything in the universe—obey fundamentally different rules than the objects of everyday life.
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Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Some still defend his influence on aviation, a claim that displaces the importance of the Wright brothers and fundamentally challenges the early history of aeronautics.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 6 Jan. 2025
The same building blocks that allow a single website to be displayed responsively on a tiny phone or enormous television screen can make a website fundamentally undisplayable.
—Tim Carmody, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2025
Amazon is also under investigation by the federal government for high injury rates in its warehouses, although Amazon called the report fundamentally flawed.
—Katie Tarasov,devan Burris, CNBC, 22 Dec. 2024
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Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Some still defend his influence on aviation, a claim that displaces the importance of the Wright brothers and fundamentally challenges the early history of aeronautics.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 6 Jan. 2025
The same building blocks that allow a single website to be displayed responsively on a tiny phone or enormous television screen can make a website fundamentally undisplayable.
—Tim Carmody, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2025
Amazon is also under investigation by the federal government for high injury rates in its warehouses, although Amazon called the report fundamentally flawed.
—Katie Tarasov,devan Burris, CNBC, 22 Dec. 2024
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