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basic facts

noun as in bare-bones

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In the panic that results, you are forced to learn basic facts about plumbing, electricity, or home construction in order to guide the process of getting your life out of the 19th century.

From Slate

Here’s are the basic facts of Barron: He’s in his freshman year as a student at New York University, unlike most of his older siblings, who opted to attend their father’s alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.

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Sadly, very few of the multitudes of American “advisors” in Russia since the Bolshevik demise acquainted themselves with even the most basic facts of the country whose destiny they propose to shape.

From Slate

Few people explicitly call themselves “ecofascist,” yet an umbrella term is useful when describing the ideologies of those who accept the basic facts of environmental science — namely, that human activity is capable of drastically altering the planet for the worse, at least in terms of our ability to inhabit it — and use those facts as the premise for radical right-wing political conclusions.

From Salon

They have a remarkable tolerance for crass and bullying behavior, care little for empathy and ethics, and are incapable of weighing basic facts about public life.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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