basis
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Let’s proceed on the basis that you own your home outright.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
Igor Tudor, who succeed Frank on an interim basis but lasted just seven matches, obviously struggled at Spurs but what he did do was to introduce man-to-man marking as their main defensive tactic.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
Class A shares are convertible to Class B shares on a one-for-one basis.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
This provided the scientific basis for municipal-water filtration and government regulation of water supplies and became the basis of modern environmental engineering.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
These settler-soldiers perfected an approach to warfare that formed the basis of US militarism into the twenty-first century.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade 11)
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"Democracy in America, Vol. 1" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Introduction–Chapter 5
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