fundamentally

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Etymology

From fundamental +‎ -ly.

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Adverb

fundamentally (comparative more fundamentally, superlative most fundamentally)

  1. In a fundamental or basic sense; reaching the very core of the matter.
    • 2000 June 24, Michael Massing, “Seeing Drugs as a Choice Or as a Brain Anomaly”, in The New York Times‎:
      What the science shows, he says, is that the brain of an addict is fundamentally different from that of a nonaddict.
    • 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC‎:
      Hanks is known as being an avid reader of history and biography, and seems to seek out stories which offer a certain optimism and humanism. In other words, he plays – fundamentally – good people.
    • 2021 November 5, Chris Cillizza, “Even Democrats are now admitting ‘Defund the Police’ was a massive mistake”, in CNN‎:
      On Tuesday, a proposal to fundamentally restructure the Minneapolis police department in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020 was soundly defeated, a setback that even many Democrats acknowledged could be laid at the feet of the “defund the police” movement that some within the party embraced last summer.

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