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Another word for cornerstone

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Noun

  1. A fundamental principle or underlying concept

    See also:

    over

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Another word for cornerstone

Noun
  1. See also:

    foundation

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Sentence Examples

  • These will be waters to navigate carefully, in order to make sure that the right to privacy, a cornerstone of a free society, is not destroyed.

  • - Temple Pyramid, with sculptured cornerstone at base.

  • In 1795, as grandmaster of the Masonic fraternity, he laid the cornerstone of the new State House in Boston, and in this year also founded the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, becoming its first president.

  • The cornerstone was laid by President Harrison in 1892, and the tomb was dedicated on the 27th of April 1897 with a splendid parade and addresses by President McKinley and General Horace Porter, president of the Grant Monument Association, which from 90,000 contributions raised the funds for the tomb.

  • high, with two bronze tablets, was erected before the town-hall by the Old Colony Commission, and on High Pole Hill on the 10th of August 1 9 07 the cornerstone of a second memorial (completed in 1909, dedicated Aug.

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