Thesaurus results for CORNERSTONE

cornerstone

noun

ˈkȯr-nər-ˌstōn

as in basis

an immaterial thing upon which something else rests a concern for basic human rights was the cornerstone of the president's foreign policy

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Recent Examples of cornerstone Atlan-Jackson was mulling his next steps after an attempt to build a European distribution group under his Backup Media banner, with France’s The Jokers Films and Benelux’s Cinéart as its first cornerstones, hit the buffers due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the rise of streamers. —

Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 12 May 2026 Scaling technology The mission is a cornerstone of Project Proticity, a 2024 partnership between Unither Bioélectronique and Californian chopper maker Robinson Helicopter Company designed to modernize the R44 and R66 platforms. —

Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 12 May 2026 The bookstore, which Sheldon and his wife opened after relocating to the area, is now a cultural cornerstone. —

Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2026 This shift from reactive to predictive maintenance is the cornerstone of modern grid reliability. —

Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for cornerstone

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Ryan Zeferjahn gave up the first run of the game and walked the bases loaded, but Chase Silseth (1-0) worked out of the jam by getting slugger Nick Kurtz to ground into a game-ending double play.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2026
If multimodality in Omni comes together, these models may eventually form the basis for future Gemini releases to simplify Google’s AI ecosystem.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026