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China has the edge over the US due to its enormous manufacturing base.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Nvidia is also expanding its customer base to include more enterprises and sovereign programs, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
That is what a real evidence base looks like.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Meanwhile, masked flower bearers started to appear, gravitating towards the scene of the incident and laying vibrant bouquets at the base of what has now been dubbed the Justice Tree.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Callaway stopped beside a large outcropping of rocks at the base of the mountain and turned to the security patrol.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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
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
“I’ll appeal to his baser instincts, of which he has plenty. Here he comes now. Everybody keep quiet while I put the matter up to him!”
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
But the effect on most of its victims was to bring out their basest instincts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
While it was daring in its hard-R riskiness and played on our basest fears, it didn’t reinvent the wheel, or even try to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
Detractors said the app catered to the basest human interests — celebrity gossip, scandal, disaster and violence — to keep users hooked as long as possible.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
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
Asked about civilian deaths, he says the Taliban targeted US convoys and that civilians were urged to stay away from foreign bases.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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
“I was feeling pretty good out there. So even after letting runners on the bases, I just tried to focus and then take it one hitter at a time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
And what if the Nazis established air bases in South America?
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
On a recent call with a customer, he asked a Cursor agent to build a slide presentation based on all Slack messages related to that customer over two months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The HBO series is expected to take 10 years to complete, as producers plan multiple seasons covering each of Rowling's seven books, which the eight blockbuster films were originally based on.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
GKN Aerospace, based in the United Kingdom, is a major international manufacturer of airplane parts, with plants in 12 countries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
But decades of over-use, coupled with years of drought, have put crippling strain on a watercourse whose management has always been based on an over-allocation of available resources.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
She’s an architectural drafter, so it’s her job to make technical drawings based on architectural designs for buildings.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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
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
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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