How to Use fundamentally in a Sentence

fundamentally

adverb
  • For me, art is fundamentally a good thing that is made by humans.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Duke also tells me that two-thirds of jobs will have fundamentally changed by the end of the decade.
    Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Our goal over the next year is to fundamentally break that constraint.
    Michael Wystrach, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But just to talk finances, the game has so fundamentally changed.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2023
  • But data does allow for a peek at what fundamentally makes a ski hill great.
    Tom Corrigan, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • And so this is fundamentally an agent.
    Tobias Burns, CNBC, 1 June 2026
  • There’s all kinds of stupid things that don’t fundamentally alter that path.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2026
  • And those numbers are what, fundamentally, stock prices are based on.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
  • To have a job is, fundamentally, to trade some amount of freedom for some amount of money.
    Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 3 May 2026
  • And so my attitude on this is, this is not fundamentally about free speech.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 22 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The flipside of that strange path to a truce is that missiles are, well, fundamentally weapons.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 25 June 2025
  • All five of these stocks are doing well fundamentally.
    Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Here are five ways AI has fundamentally changed my thought process.
    Paul Deraval, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Those aims are fundamentally at odds.
    Catherine Thorbecke, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026
  • The intent of the law, to curb abuse, was fundamentally solid.
    Jamie Smarr, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026
  • The three years in between were the years the web was fundamentally broken for commerce.
    Michael Quoc, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • The red planet is still the goal, but the bank account required to get there has fundamentally changed.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 June 2026
  • This change alone fundamentally alters the front-end airflow and visual weight of the car.
    Karl Brauer, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • End of carousel The truth is that AI is fundamentally bad at many tasks.
    Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • But the advent of body-camera video promised to fundamentally change how the agency worked.
    Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023
  • That fundamentally changes how the Pats can play defense, and how good their defense can be.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 28 Oct. 2025
  • What does one make of a life so fundamentally altered by an event as unlikely as a lightning strike?
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
  • What is clear is that startup culture has fundamentally changed.
    Dasha Shunina, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • That could fundamentally change how some of them work—and how Google monetizes them.
    WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
  • To be sure, stock splits do not fundamentally change anything about a company.
    Brian Evans, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Durbin is athletic, fundamentally sound and has sneaky good range.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
  • That shift fundamentally changes how an apartment functions and feels to be inside.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 5 Jan. 2026
  • His goal is to keep the team united and coax it toward more complete and fundamentally sound efforts.
    Mike Jones, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The first half of the series is fundamentally opposed to the second.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025

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