fundamental change
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffundamentalandchange
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fundamental
adjective
uk/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/us/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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change
noun
uk/tʃeɪndʒ/us/tʃeɪndʒ/
the act of becoming different, or the result of something ...
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(Definition offundamentalandchangefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They experience afundamentalchangein their personality, and the climax is reached with their complaints that they have become strangers to themselves.
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Their behaviour signified afundamentalchangein the relationships between bosses and workers that would have been inconceivable a decade earlier.
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This did not, however, presage anyfundamentalchangeof attitude.
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Consequently, a precondition forfundamentalchangeof the position of museums is the end of class-based societies.
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The re-annotation technique requires a small butfundamentalchangeto the original annotation scheme.
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The legislation marks afundamentalchangein the legal status of women that had implications for the nature of marriage itself.
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Fairbanks argues that the late 1950s brought afundamentalchangein the way that civic leaders perceived and responded to the city.
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This could represent afundamentalchangein the political economy of inflation.
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In fact the best feature of the book is that there has been littlefundamentalchange.
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Afundamentalchangein food consumption patterns and practices occurred simultaneously with the onset of the epidemic.
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Additionally, he notes afundamentalchangein the consciousness and mindset of the leaders and the population.
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The aim to realize a more integrated study of the cultural landscape also resulted in afundamentalchangein the excavation strategy.
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Without a veryfundamentalchange, it is hard to see how this argument can be grounded in a non-contested precedent.
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The regime promised a permanent review of the constitution and morefundamentalchangeafter the election.
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The emphasis in these accounts is onfundamentalchangerather than continuity.
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This might indicate somefundamentalchangein the institution of marriage during the eighteenth century.
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It is perhaps in the perspective that a subtle butfundamentalchangehas taken place.
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A good deal of swirling occurred among the middling group, but there was littlefundamentalchangeor replacement by others.
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Without a strong push from the executive branch,fundamentalchangewas unlikely.
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