bedrock
bottom layer; lowest stratum.
any firm foundation or basis: Technical courses will be founded on a bedrock of sound, general education so as to produce a well-rounded engineer.
the fundamental principles, as of a teaching, belief, or science: Let's strip away the cant and get down to bedrock.
basic; fundamental.
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How to use bedrock in a sentence
I think decency is the bedrock of defining what makes us humans.
Why Mastercard isn’t a credit card company, according to its outgoing CEO Ajay Banga | cleaf2013 | December 3, 2020 | FortuneIn the long term, the thinking goes, culture is a better bedrock for a rebuild than a hypothetical prospect.
All four NFC East teams have three wins. For Washington, that means it’s full steam ahead. | Sam Fortier | November 23, 2020 | Washington PostYet the choice — to know he was positive yet participate in close contact over and over again — casts aside the discipline Turner needed to transform himself from onetime castoff to franchise bedrock.
In a moment that called for self-sacrifice, Justin Turner opted for a frustrating celebration | Barry Svrluga | October 28, 2020 | Washington PostThe Affordable Care Act’s LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections, in combination with a commitment to sexual and reproductive healthcare, provided a solid bedrock for the NHAS.
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So we know that boring down to the bedrock and pumping it full of fluid can cause earthquakes.
26 Earthquakes Later, Fracking’s Smoking Gun Is in Texas | James Joiner | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEAST“To minimize sprawl” has become a bedrock catchphrase of the core political ideology.
Freedom will seep into the bedrock as we rediscover our backbone.
“We know more about bedrock than we do about most other vineyards on account of the people who owned it,” Peterson explained.
The Constitution of the United States has been the bedrock upon which our country was built over the past 225 years.
The ‘Defining Issue of Our Time’ Is Obama’s Constitutional Excesses | Ron Christie | January 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe rubble and bedrock bottoms found in most streams of the Flint Hills have been described.
Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties, Kansas | Artie L. MetcalfIn many places the streams of the Big Caney system flow over resistant limestone members, which form a bedrock bottom.
Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties, Kansas | Artie L. MetcalfOne long pool 500 feet by 50 feet with a variety of depths and bottom conditions ranging from mud to bedrock.
Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties, Kansas | Artie L. MetcalfFirm-fixed it stood upon its bedrock of tradition that in matters of fraud, crime should be punished to the full limit of the law.
Corporal Cameron | Ralph ConnorDeep, unconstricted bedrock channels and basins with weak currents occur in mid-Bay and the west inlet.
Humpback Whales in Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska | United States Department of Commerce, Marine Mammal Commission
British Dictionary definitions for bedrock
/ (ˈbɛdˌrɒk) /
the solid unweathered rock that lies beneath the loose surface deposits of soil, alluvium, etc
basic principles or facts (esp in the phrase get down to bedrock)
the lowest point, level, or layer
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Scientific definitions for bedrock
[ bĕd′rŏk′ ]
The solid rock that lies beneath the soil and other loose material on the Earth's surface.
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