base
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The acquisition combines Headwater’s low-cost production footprint with Tamarack’s asset base, bringing together more than 1,500 sections of contiguous land across northern Alberta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The home has been in the Frech family for years, providing a longtime home base for the athlete as he went from a sports-loving child to one of the world’s most accomplished Paralympics.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Currently, the base pay package of ministers is about S$1.1m.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
I came across Finch—a popular mobile app for self-care and habit tracking—the way I imagine most of their user base does: at rock bottom, doomscrolling until I was hit with one of their ads.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
The base was so secret that it didn’t have an official name.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
There may be a baser motive at play: money.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
The album revels in baser instincts too, almost in defiance of the sweetly bashful “Bad Habit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
But it can also enhance our baser instincts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
But it also quite consciously plays to the baser side of us that takes cold comfort, even joy, at the miseries of the hyperwealthy.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
And it seemed to Tyrion that the gold and silver and platinum links far outnumbered those of baser metals.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
But the effect on most of its victims was to bring out their basest instincts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
The new arrivals were often broke or close to it, and instantly found themselves in a crowded warren of streets that catered to their basest needs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
The actor and playwright Eric Bogosian blazed a career on Off Broadway stages in the 1980s and ’90s by mucking around in mankind’s basest instincts.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
They prefer stuff like "Warrior Poet Society," because it flatters their basest instincts.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2022
Gleefully, she turned on the faithful Robbie, and with the basest of ingratitude, rewarded him for his sacrifice by taunting him cruelly for a lack of running ability.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
U.S. hyperscalers are likely to benefit from larger, more mature cloud businesses, as well as broad enterprise and consumer bases, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The two "agreed to accelerate force posture initiatives at Australian bases, bolster cooperation in combined logistics, and build greater interoperability through joint exercises," the Pentagon said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
According to Unifil, the Israeli military has established four new bases in the invaded areas, bringing the number of such positions to nine.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
But, since that crash, prices have stabilized, bases have formed and buyers have come back into the market.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Bright-green mist spews from their bases with a sickening hiss.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
"It is council's assessment that there is currently adequate provision for tennis across the city, based on existing capacity, usage levels and booking demands across available facilities," the spokesperson added.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
They get both in “Drawn Together,” based on a duology by the Argentina-born novelist Mercedes Ron, whose “Culpables” trilogy has become a hit franchise for Prime Video and a young-adult phenomenon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
These posts are selected for users based on programming rules called algorithms that predict what you will engage with -- whether it's something you like, or that riles you.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
She has written and published a book based on her own experiences.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
To those who based the value of the objects salvaged from a shipwreck on their resale value, the Shinan vessel was indeed a treasure ship.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
The point of these various studies is not that we should start basing our investment decisions on weather reports or the phases of the moon.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
La Guaira's Governor Jose Alejandro Teran, however, last week said 1,338 people were missing, basing the count on a residential registry.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
The about-face on basing also put the biggest strain on Saudi-American military relations in recent years and triggered a spate of tense phone calls between Trump and the Saudi crown prince.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
She has been a major figure in Burnham's Makerfield campaign, basing herself in the constituency, and is line for a big cabinet job.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
“Are you basing all this on the way you felt about Dad and the divorce?”
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
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