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Russian troops had used it as a base during their occupation of the city.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
The unprecedented move prompted at least 250,000 subscribers — roughly 10% of the Post’s digital subscriber base — to cancel.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
It's thought the family will base themselves in the Cotswolds.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Without Walter, there is no happiest fan base in baseball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
She wanted it to go away, but she couldn’t tell whose hunger was radiating through her, from her stomach to the base of her throat to the tips of her fingers.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
Bizarre as all of this is, Ackman’s self-promotion has obscured a perhaps far baser motivation for attacking Harvard.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
“The Killer” should satisfy those with baser instincts, particularly as it reunites Fincher with “Seven” screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, who adapted Alexis Nolent’s noirish graphic novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
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
For all the hate that is out there, churned from the basest of motives and used to exploit parents, this is not Florida and it is not 1978.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
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
Medill accused him of nurturing the city’s basest instincts but also called him “the most remarkable man that our city has ever produced.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Heyward was the more hyped prospect, and the star of the East in that game, with four stolen bases, a pair of hits and two RBIs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Kuwait hosts one of the region's largest concentrations of American troops, with US forces active in airfields, bases and training grounds.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
According to the paper, the UK is the first country to be given access to Kyiv's vast "Avenger Labs" repository, which includes data that will be used to train technology at British military bases.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
"More globally, this work is a step forward in the combined use of laboratory experiments and AI to decipher the information that is embedded in the sequence of the DNA bases in humans," said Kadonaga.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
There was no special activity at Soviet missile bases or airfields.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
As James notes, "Our actions feel like they are caused by decisions based on desires, beliefs, and intentions."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Though Parton’s groundbreaking songs were often based on her own remarkable life, she also insisted that her music went beyond her own experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
With many leading Europeans based in the United States, the Wentworth-based organisation would like as many big names as it can get.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
The math changes year to year, based largely on mortgage rates, but “we don’t think we’re going to go back and ever see pandemic-era mortgage rates again,” Pendleton said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
To have the freedom to choose my own path based on my strengths instead of being crammed down one that seemed to do nothing but highlight my weaknesses.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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
A Nato spokesperson later clarified that Rutte had simply meant to highlight how allies, Italy included, had honoured existing bilateral basing agreements.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
The table above lists six actively managed ETFs that use AI to manage their portfolios and bill themselves as basing their strategies on AI.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
Articles accused their detractors of basing comments on brief medical bulletins and newspaper reports, hardly enough to make a diagnosis.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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