foundational
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Over the past two years, Roshni Kakaiya, a San Diego–based family medicine doctor, has created a training model that lets clinicians easily practice paracervical blocks—education she believes should be foundational for anyone in women’s health.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2026
As thrilling as it was to immerse myself in American sports, English football was my foundational text.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Work started on the castle in 1215, the same year as Magna Carta, the foundational declaration of English liberty, was signed.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
That’s because large enterprises depend on a range of products in IBM’s “layered” software portfolio — from its foundational operating systems to the data tools that run on top of it, he explained.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026
The result, a compact treatise titled Generation of Animals, would serve as a foundational text for human genetics just as Plato’s Republic was a founding text for political philosophy.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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