fundamental question

collocation in English

meaningsoffundamentalandquestion

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fundamental
adjective
uk
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.təl/us
/ˌfʌn.dəˈmen.t̬əl/
forming the base, from which everything ...
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question
noun
uk
/ˈkwes.tʃən/us
/ˈkwes.tʃən/
a sentence or phrase used to find ...
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(Definition offundamentalandquestionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffundamental question

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The second limit begs thefundamentalquestion.
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Thefundamentalquestionis: is privacy actually important?
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Thefundamentalquestion, therefore, is about this alleged additional mechanism.
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It is thus natural to consider the followingfundamentalquestion.
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This is afundamentalquestionthat is rarely asked.
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Thefundamentalquestionwas the distribution of land and sea.
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Thefundamentalquestionis where to define the priority relation.
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However, the morefundamentalquestionin learning is how knowledge is constructed in the first place.
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It addresses thefundamentalquestionof how to pinpoint the most crucial experience of this period.
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A detailed quantitative resolution of thisfundamentalquestionis beyond our present knowledge.
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There is, in any case, a morefundamentalquestionto be asked.
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Afundamentalquestionto be asked is whether the judgements meted out were deserved.
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Afundamentalquestionin market-based programming is how to define the initial allocation of resources.
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Anotherfundamentalquestionis whether syntactic processing is associated with dedicated neural networks.
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Of course, in what sense cases are alike is afundamentalquestionfor this project.
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In the case of our data, we believe thefundamentalquestionis legitimacy.
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Thefundamentalquestionhe addresses is that of collaboration and interaction between occupier and occupied.
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Thefundamentalquestionis how to construct good methods, or algorithms, of approximation.
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Thefundamentalquestionis therefore: how can we make music analysis more accessible to performance teachers?
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Perhaps a morefundamentalquestionis the audience for such a translation.
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We have neglected the mostfundamentalquestionof all: why do practice variations exist?
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This morefundamentalquestionis also the focus of the present investigation.
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It is also afundamentalquestionin the study of conservation biology.
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