How to Use fundamental in a Sentence

fundamental

1 of 2 adjective

• We need to make some fundamental changes in the way we do business.
• The revolution brought about a fundamental change in the country.
• We need to address these problems on a more fundamental level.
• These ideas are of fundamental importance.
• There's a fundamental difference between these two political parties.
• The Constitution ensures our fundamental rights.
• The role of mayflies and stoneflies in the food chain is fundamental, as well.
  — Boris Kondratieff, The Conversation, 22 Jan. 2020
• In a way that's such like a fundamental part of my life.
  — Corey Seymour, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2021
• Here in Michigan, where the right to vote is the most fundamental right.
  — NBC News, 1 Nov. 2020
• But that goes against a lot of fundamental facts of life.
  — Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 18 Apr. 2020
• Which brings us to the fundamental question here: to shave or not to shave?
  — Cam Wolf, GQ, 1 Nov. 2017
• Trust is a fundamental need for the success of the leader.
  — Chris Cebollero, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• The business is a fundamental part of the creative process.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 20 Sep. 2018
• One of life’s fundamental challenges is to find food that’s good to eat and avoid food that isn’t.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Nov. 2019
• First, this is not the last fundamental right that this Court is likely to take away.
  — Tara Kole, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 July 2022
• Has the business of law changed in any fundamental way?
  — Sam Wood, Philly.com, 16 Sep. 2017
• But all of them serve a fundamental purpose for the living: to guide them in their grief.
  — Teresa Mathew, The New Yorker, 9 June 2020
• Urban says that lends itself to a fundamental question at the heart of the show.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• Yet at the most fundamental level, James is no more or less than most of us.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 17 Feb. 2018
• But just who owns the story — and who gets to tell it — is a fundamental question here.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
• And among preppies, no dress shoe is as fundamental as the loafer.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 6 Sep. 2016
• But the most fundamental issue with the coin is that the summit has not yet taken place.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 21 May 2018
• The fundamental flaw in the woke logic is that it is all based on the idea that fairness means equal outcome.
  — WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• But there is a fundamental change in the nature of business.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2022
• Trump has sought to change our global role in a fundamental way.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2020
• Something fundamental and not shifting with the wind or the whim.
  — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 7 June 2018
• The coaches and kids just went back to work on fundamental football.
  — Ted Dunnam, Houston Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2017
• Such people have the same fundamental rights as the faithful.
  — Thomas Farr, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• He was deprived of the fundamental needs of safety, nutrition, and human contact.
  — Marc D. Hauser, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
• Memory may be a fundamental part of cognition, but the next step beyond that is intentionality.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2024

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fundamental

2 of 2 noun

• But the hype ran ahead of the fundamentals, and the bubble burst the next year.
  — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2020
• This rebound shows that the fundamentals of the bank are strong.
  — Kuwar Singh, Quartz India, 7 July 2019
• The camp is open to kids ages 5 to 14 and will focus on fundamentals.
  — Staff Report, Daily Southtown, 19 Dec. 2017
• The sixth game of the year isn’t time to be reviewing the fundamentals of tackling.
  — Detroit Free Press, 20 Oct. 2019
• There’s some haircut in the short term, but in the long term the firm’s fundamentals are excellent.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 11 Mar. 2020
• Steven stresses fundamentals and learning how to play the game the right way.
  — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 31 Mar. 2023
• Campbell says the team is going to work on the fundamentals.
  — Jacob McAdams, Houston Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2018
• Quinn: Play your fundamentals and trust your keys — that goes a long way.
  — Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• Kind of a fundamental of a game like this to directly be able to play a friend and test out your decks.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
• And practice is set up to go back and hammer out the fundamentals.
  — Adam Jude, The Seattle Times, 5 Nov. 2018
• That is, is there a trend for the polling averages to move towards the fundamentals?
  — Harry Enten, CNN, 7 Apr. 2018
• In the eastern half of the country, fundamentals such as house price-to-rent ratios were less skewed.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2023
• The mission is to teach the principles, fundamentals and basic skills of the game.
  — Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
• But even a long war will not change those fundamentals.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2023
• And one of the fundamentals – free-throw shooting – was in great supply.
  — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• These sounds, we’ve been told, are the fundamentals of talking dirty.
  — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 30 Jan. 2018
• And that’s not likely to change fundamentals very much at all.
  — David Koenig, The Mercury News, 2 June 2017
• With six teams in the coed division, ages 6-8, the focus is on learning the fundamentals and rules of the game.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• For coach Gregg Popovich, the focus is on fundamentals.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Feb. 2018
• That is what Ramona Swim Team is all about: fun, friends and fundamentals.
  — Dan Hammonds, Ramona Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2017
• Most of them turn on big fundamentals of economics and people's sense of the world.
  — Robert Costa, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2023
• But the fundamentals of their core business are not likely to change.
  — Greg Gardner and Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 15 Dec. 2017
• To that end, last week, the Hurricanes used some of their downtime last week to work on fundamentals.
  — Christy Cabrera Chirinos, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Short fields, turnovers and flubs in the fundamentals equal a soupy mix for a forgettable night for any high school football team.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 13 Sep. 2019
• Some seemed to have no clue about the basic fundamentals of Facebook.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 11 Apr. 2018
• Next are market fundamentals, like the ratios of home prices to rents and incomes.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• Of course, the fundamentals of gardening remain the same: Plant a seed and try to harvest it before the deer and squirrels do.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 30 May 2023
• In the week ahead, investors should be able to refocus on the fundamentals of business.
  — Tom Hudson, miamiherald, 13 Apr. 2018
• Meme stocks tend to trade more on emotion than fundamentals.
  — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• But the foundation of any good defense, Adams said, is sound fundamentals, succinct rules to follow and personnel committed to playing aggressively.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024