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FUNDAMENTALLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature

Example:

for all his bluster he is in essence a shy person

Synonyms:

basically; essentially; fundamentally

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Adverbs

Pertainym:

fundamental (being or involving basic facts or principles)

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 Context examples: 

Homogenous dietary habits, together with ritual and funerary practices in which the emphasis was on community rather than the individual, show that Megalithic peoples were characterized by social relations that were fundamentally based on values ​​such as equality, reciprocity, and solidarity.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

You can't fundamentally disrupt all the natural systems that we have adapted to over millions of years of evolution without having these ripple effects that come back to affect our own health and well-being, he said.

(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)

Plants and animals exploit fundamentally different approaches to transporting fluids, chemicals, and macromolecules, yet there are surprising similarities in their vascular network structures, said researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Arkansas State University-Jonesboro.

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)

With enough time, escaping plasmoids can drain the ions from a planet's atmosphere, fundamentally changing its composition.

(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)