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How to use the word foundational in a Sentence?

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What they want to do is they want to work off of a foundational model that’s big and great already, and then have the ability to customize it for their own purposes.

– Andy Jassy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most companies want to use these large language models, but the really good ones take billions of dollars to train and many years, most companies don’t want to go through that, what they want to do is they want to work off of a foundational model that’s big and great already, and then have the ability to customize it for their own purposes.

– Andy Jassy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Second Amendment is what makes the rest of the amendments possible. If the state legislature wants to expand upon the foundational rights codified in the Second Amendment, they have the authority to do that. But SAPA is also about the Tenth Amendment. It’s about federalism and individual liberty, so we will be appealing the court’s ruling.

– Andrew Bailey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ever since I’ve talked to the president about the economy, he’s distinguished between the short-term and the long-term, between consumption and investment, these have always been foundational to his economic thinking.

– Jared Bernstein

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The breadth of these agencies is far greater than the immigration portfolio, the immigration system, our laws, have not been reformed for more than 40 years. The problem from administration to administration, regardless of party, is the fact that we are fundamentally working within a broken immigration system, and that is the foundational challenge, with respect to the border.

– Alejandro Mayorkas

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is a tenet of my faith that the Constitution is divinely inspired, that this is my most basic foundational belief, and so for me to do that because somebody just asked me to, is foreign to my very being. I will not do it.

– Rusty Bowers '

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Today, on the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the Biden Administration’s new regulation restores the original intent of this foundational law by guaranteeing all students equal access to educational opportunities, programs, and activities regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

– Suzanne Bonamici

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think we really built some foundational pieces this year that are really going to serve us well moving forward. Extremely proud of the guys. Extremely proud of the coaching staff, we ran into a really good team tonight that was just a little bit too much for us. Houston stretched its lead to 10 points three different times before halftime. The Wildcats missed seven of their first eight shots, and trailed by double digits for the first time after Houston scored seven points in a 57-second span for a 14-4 lead. That quick spurt included Shead getting a rebound to start a fastbreak that ended with his pass to Ramon Walker Jr. in the left corner for an open 3, and a driving layup by Edwards after a turnover. Taze Moore, a graduate transfer, had a career-high 21 points in Houston’s second-round win over Illinois, but Taze Moore early 3 to make it 5-0 Houston in the first two minutes was all Taze Moore ’d score against The Wildcats. Taze Moore committed Taze Moore third personal foul with 9:22 left and played only 17 minutes overall.

– Tommy Lloyd

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’ve been surrounded by great people, when you get around great players, great coaches that are all committed and working in the same direction, pulling that rope in the same direction, good things can happen. When you have the right foundational pieces... because of those guys ’ success, other people get opportunities to grow.

– Sean McVay

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The foundational basis of our lawsuit is that these are male offenders being housed in women’s prisons, to pretend that they are female, in language or what we say about them or how we talk about them, goes against the whole basis of the lawsuit.

– Lauren Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

… But in terms of the next step to take, I can tell you right now, OK, I know we're a whole lot closer where we're going than further away. I can tell you that right now. I can tell you we got more players here who are going to be free agents next year, all right, who are in my office every day begging to come back. OK ? I know that. Where player who we coached last year that still calling me twice a week talking about how much they wish they were still here and they're getting paid more somewhere else. So I know we've got the right foundational pieces there. I know we have some players in key positions who are guys that you can build with and keep carrying on.

– Joe Judge

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Most readers of Genesis understood Adam and Eve to be (1) ancestors of us all, and (2) miraculously created without parents of their own, in contrast, evolution teaches that (3) we share common ancestors with apes, and (4) we arise from a large population, not a single couple. This conflict of fact onlyseemed solvable by revising foundational Christian theological beliefs, or by rejecting evolution.

– Joshua Swamidass

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Florida’s civics curriculum will incorporate foundational concepts with the best materials and it will expressly exclude unsanctioned narratives like critical race theory and other unsubstantiated theories.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Although designated an' alien unprivileged enemy belligerent,' not technically afforded the rights of The US citizens, the complete disregard for the foundational concepts upon which the Constitution was founded is an affront to American values and concepts of justice, mr. Khan was subject to physical and psychological abuse well beyond approved enhanced interrogation techniques, instead being closer to torture performed by the most abusive regimes in modern history.

– The US

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm running for State Senate because these are unprecedented times in our nation, out-of-control bureaucrats have put politics over common-sense policy with government mandates that force people to choose between earning a paycheck and violating their personal rights and beliefs. The foundational principles that have made our nation great are under threat like never before.

– Joshua Duggar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Equity is the sanitized term of choicedeployed by the hard-Left to encompass the entirepanoplyof government policies that institutionalize Critical Race Theory into the machinery of government, equity is CRT put into practice: It demolishes and replaces equality as the foundational principle of American life and wields fearsome federal government power to exclude, punish,prejudge, evaluate, stereotype,segregate, and obsessively categorize American citizens on the basis of skin color.

– Stephen Miller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today's expansion of our sovereign investment partnership will help accelerate funding and innovation in key sectors that are foundational to [ the ] economic growth of both nations, we are already developing ambitious energy transition, technology and infrastructure investment programs that create new jobs and strengthen commercial ties between our nations.

– Khaldoon Al Mubarak

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The foundational idea of The Talmud is to always listen to two sides of the argument, the Talmud admires people who ask' why are we wrong ?' Thinking only one side, or only your side, is correct is anti-intellectual.

– Micah Goodman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is the most foundational practice, it's part of every tradition and every program currently available for mindfulness training.

– Amishi Jha

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Good Morning America, you can tune in at Noon, and listen to reality and tune into Limbaugh-foundational principles.

– Buck Sexton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[T]his initiative will eliminate ALL math acceleration prior to 11th grade, that is not an exaggeration, nor does there appear to be any discretion in how local districts implement this. All 6th graders will take Foundational Concepts 6. All 7th graders will take Foundational Concepts 7. All 10th graders will take Essential Concepts 10. Only in 11th and 12th grade is there any opportunity for choice in higher math courses.

– Ian Serotkin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

These efforts really underscore, again, the Biden-Harris administration's focus on building back better and considering advancements in our country's infrastructure and our country's fundamental resilience to be a foundational step that we all must take together as we confront cyber threats that could compromise our most critical systems that are essential to US national and economic security.

– Eric Goldstein

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The language change on the first day of this administration, with Kamala Harris the daughter of immigrants, to me it's not just symbolic... it's foundational, how we describe people really sticks. It affects how we treat them.

– Jose Antonio Vargas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I view this type of investment in what we're doing as really foundational for us to be able to build a multi-generational institution, so that future Elon Musks of the world are also able to tap into their potential and help all of us up-level who we are as a civilization.

– Khan Academy

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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