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Because the tightly woven wool fabric serves as a rudimentary shell, blocking some wind, the doubled-up front of the sweater keeps you cozy while cycling or skiing without preventing your back from losing heat.

Fitbit has come a long way since their early rudimentary clip-on trackers that used motion sensors to track movement, sleep, and calorie burn.

As modern panpsychists like Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin, Galen Strawson, and others have argued, all matter has some capacity for feeling, albeit highly rudimentary feeling in most configurations of matter.

While that might sound rudimentary, it is not a normal finding in our post-update analysis.

One problem is that our scientific understanding of food is still rudimentary.

They were carpenters making chairs, beds and other rudimentary pieces of furniture for the locals.

Blumenthal, a courtly gentleman of 68 in a perfectly crisp blue shirt, gets laughs by trotting out his rudimentary Spanish.

They have struggled to provide rudimentary care for wounded fighters and civilians while dodging bombs, rockets and bullets.

The isolation wards, too, were classified as “rudimentary” lacking water, electricity, and waste disposal facilities.

With me tagging along, they dove into a rudimentary, damp shelter they had dug in a wood nearby.

Accommodation was cheap, manners were easy, and knowledge of the gay city less than rudimentary.

Again, the whole external ear may be looked upon as a rudimentary structure, since it does not appear to aid the hearing in man.

Its rudimentary form is the attraction between atoms, which expands into the attraction between spheres.

The original in this piece is confined to the passage-work, and has not yet got out of the rudimentary stage.

Of course, there were moments when Pat displayed intelligence but it was of the most rudimentary sort.