Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a rudimentary manner or state; elementarily.
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- adverb In a
rudimentary fashion.
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Examples
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It is the same problem why reduction of CO2 wouldn't solve anything - The Earth is a complex system and still only rudimentarily understood.
Climate Engineering, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It had been important for him to learn the language so that he could communicate, no matter how rudimentarily, to these tall foreigners without their Jordanian minders understanding what he was saying.
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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It had been important for him to learn the language so that he could communicate, no matter how rudimentarily, to these tall foreigners without their Jordanian minders understanding what he was saying.
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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It had been important for him to learn the language so that he could communicate, no matter how rudimentarily, to these tall foreigners without their Jordanian minders understanding what he was saying.
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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His fingers began clicking rudimentarily through the box once again, but the motion suddely stopped and he slammed all the dominoes flat with his hand.
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Download IMG_0034 In addition, you can edit videos for length, at least rudimentarily.
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For all Ronald Reagan's talk of "Star Wars," more than two decades later the best we can do is protect ourselves rudimentarily against a regime known to pop out one dud after another?
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In some, these modes are pathological, and theopathy is often only rudimentarily developed.
David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009
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I dealt with it to some degree when I was in the Guard even though I was an infantryman but I never became even rudimentarily proficient in it.
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I always thought of a hack film as being rudimentarily functional if derivative.
McG Still Wants to Make 5th and 6th Terminator Movies | /Film 2009
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