How to Use fundamentally in a Sentence

fundamentally

adverb
  • But just to talk finances, the game has so fundamentally changed.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The Portland Sea Dogs won, but that’s not why, fundamentally, the fans went home happy.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 11 July 2023
  • The Biden administration has said that the cut won’t fundamentally change what the IRS can do over the next few years.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • But the advent of body-camera video promised to fundamentally change how the agency worked.
    Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023
  • So, this is all about restoring a process that will fundamentally change things back to what was working.
    Ellis Kim, CBS News, 6 June 2023
  • But data does allow for a peek at what fundamentally makes a ski hill great.
    Tom Corrigan, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Two types of aerospike engines—toroidal and linear—differ in shape (as their names suggest), but fundamentally work in the same way.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2023
  • That could fundamentally change how some of them work—and how Google monetizes them.
    WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
  • However, the landscape of the war has fundamentally changed since last year.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • This points to how the map of our body is fluid, fundamentally shaped by physical experience as well as how the mind sees the body.
    Chip Colwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • That fundamentally changes the nature of the challenge.
    Ally Schweitzer, NPR, 8 May 2024
  • The ways in which humans trade power and influence are still fundamentally the same.
    Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The Italian Knitwear Scion created the brand with a fundamentally female point of view.
    Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Yet that fact doesn’t change the experience of a piece that can sometimes be moving but that, in the end, feels fundamentally static.
    An Epic Set, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
  • And both stories are fundamentally about how love begins, and what happens to it after that.
    Marion Winik, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • The review board found the court-martial cases were so fundamentally unfair that all the convictions should be set aside.
    Reuters, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • This fundamentally denies how Lynch faces the reality of evil, following the moral of fairy tales and art.
    Armond White, National Review, 7 June 2023
  • But, fundamentally here, President Biden believes that this country of China is the only one in the world that has both the power and the intent to change the global order.
    CBS News, 18 June 2023
  • Someone who will likely dominate track and field for decades to come, and set records that fundamentally change the sport forever.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Rarely still is one that can fundamentally transform it.
    Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Jan. 2024
  • And this could fundamentally change the online search ecosystem.
    Ravi Sen, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Families may have lost someone, jobs were lost and the pandemic just fundamentally changed life for many, Smith said.
    Stacy Ryburn, arkansasonline.com, 23 Dec. 2023
  • That so few fans of the two men will even attempt to argue that their guy is fundamentally honest reveals a depressing truth about the state of our politics.
    Jim Geraghty, National Review, 27 July 2023
  • It is often said that most people fundamentally agree on core values–but disagree on the best approach.
    Morgan Mercer, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The House bill in question would fundamentally change how D.C. conducts its elections.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 7 June 2023
  • But that fundamentally doesn’t impact the government’s view of the subject.
    Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • And as Team Vole is finding, this means that these small mammals—which live throughout the circumpolar north—fundamentally shape the ecosystem around them.
    Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But a vote has never only been fundamentally about wins and losses.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
  • There’s a debate in think-tank circles about whether the country’s economic structure will be durable over the longer term or fundamentally unsound.
    Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • From rudeness in grocery stores to doors closing in your face rather than being held open by a stranger, behavior at a macro level seems to have fundamentally changed.
    Talia Varley, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2024

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