fundamental error

collocation in English

meaningsoffundamentalanderror

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fundamental
adjective
uk
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/us
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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error
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈer.ər/us
/ˈer.ɚ/
a ...
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(Definition offundamentalanderrorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This analysis illustrates afundamentalerrorin any attempt to equate motion relative to the earth with motion relative to earth's gravity.
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Rejecting the concrete and particular in favor of an abstract, contextless "self" is afundamentalerrorfor two reasons.
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But this was afundamentalerror.
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This is where afundamentalerrorin the organisation of our civil defence arrangements occurs at the present time.
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I consider this afundamentalerrorregardless of which side believes it.
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That is afundamentalerror, reflecting a misunderstanding of the role and purpose of policing.
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I suggest that there is afundamentalerrorin our approach.
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There could not be a morefundamentalerrorthan that.
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Simply targeting young offenders is afundamentalerror.
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We are surely making afundamentalerrorin going down that road.
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I think thefundamentalerrorof his ideas is to over estimate the value of civil commotion and guerilla warfare under modern conditions.
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Thefundamentalerrorwhich they committed in this case was in believing that they were entitled to sell this food off the station.
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It was assumed that workers who had to travel more than 12 miles would be willing to go into hostels, which was afundamentalerror.
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The insistence upon the growing of export crops is afundamentalerror.
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The composition of that body, especially the absence of a pensioner representative, is afundamentalerror.
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That is why the alliance amendment is afundamentalerror.
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I think that there is onefundamentalerrorin it.
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It would be afundamentalerrorto view water, sanitation and hygiene as separate issues.
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This lack of strategy is afundamentalerror, and it gives rise to a great many problems.
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