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foundational

[ foun-dey-shuh-nl ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the basis or groundwork on which something rests or is built; needing to be understood or established at the beginning:

    We believe that fostering a strong local community is a foundational component of our inner-city scholarship program, guiding everything else we do.



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This remarkable evolutionary conservation is a foundational concept in genome research.

Even some calamities that the world has avoided to date, such as a cyberattack on foundational global systems, should be part of scenario planning.

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This year’s Digiday Technology Awards winners played foundational roles in enabling media companies and marketers to earn money from their content, reach their audiences and make the most of digital real estate.

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For starters, the work Poly did on creating an extensive taxonomy to organize work into categories was foundational in creating better alignment.

Which is the foundational technique of most of the AI that we use today.

Back then, property was understood by universal consensus as a foundational cornerstone of human liberty and a life worth living.

And we are, to my knowledge, the only nation that has hounding down joy written into our foundational documents.

The separation of church (synagogue, mosque, etc.) and state is a foundational pillar of American democracy.

Polls show Americans now struggle to take our foundational institutions seriously.

Its foundational ideology, stripped of colonialist doubletalk, was simply one of white supremacy.

This Navigation policy gave a strong foundational support to the whole protective policy.

Still more significant is the increased mechanical efficiency in the foundational industries.

It was this course that was looked forward to with the keenest curiosity as the foundational instruction given by the school.

His fortissimo chords have hitherto lacked the foundational power and splendour of d'Albert's, Busoni's, and Rosenthal's.

It would show everything foundational, with a cross-section displaying the depth of the walls below street grades.

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