| 2026-01-16 | Bare-bones |
| 2025-05-14 | Word with cable or training |
| 2025-04-15 | Fundamental |
| 2025-01-06 | >7 on the pH scale |
| 2023-06-13 | No-frills |
| 2023-03-04 | Not complicated at all |
| 2022-12-22 | Universal ___ income |
| 2022-12-14 | Meat-and-potatoes |
| 2022-07-14 | Elemental |
| 2022-01-06 | No-frills |
| 2021-12-12 | Aggressively mainstream, in slang |
| 2020-10-14 | 101 |
| 2019-02-03 | Rudimentary |
| 2018-05-23 | Like a course labeled "101" |
| 2018-01-11 | Like a course labeled "101" |
| 2015-01-31 | Turning phenolphthalein pink |
| 2013-10-22 | Like a college course labeled "101" |
| 2012-06-04 | Fundamental |
| 2012-03-28 | Nuts-and-bolts |
| 2012-02-20 | Fundamental |
| 2011-04-07 | Computer language from 1964 |
| 2010-06-16 | 101 |
| 2010-02-09 | Like the A B C's |
| 2009-07-22 | Meat-and-potatoes |
| 2009-01-17 | Not advanced |
| 2008-10-13 | No-frills |
| 2008-03-30 | 101, in a course name |
| 2007-04-08 | Unadorned |
| 2007-03-22 | Meat-and-potatoes |
| 2005-04-06 | Like 101 courses |
| 2004-10-05 | Underlying |
| 2004-08-15 | Meat-and-potatoes |
| 2004-01-27 | Early computer language |
| 2003-05-16 | 101 |
| 2002-08-06 | Fundamental |
| 2002-06-09 | 101, in course names |
| 2002-04-01 | Fundamental |
| 2002-04-01 | Microsoft's first product |
| 2000-12-03 | Kind of instinct |
| 2000-04-19 | Meat-and-potatoes |
| 1999-12-16 | No-frills |
| 1999-10-13 | Word in 101 course names |
| 1999-05-09 | Underlying |
| 1999-01-09 | No-frills |
| 1998-09-21 | Acronymic computer language name |
| 1997-12-17 | Kind of training |
| 1997-09-19 | Computer language |