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At the time the 1736 FCC paid for these additional benefits, Adelkoff was already earning one of the highest base salaries among nonprofit executives overseeing homelessness programs in the L.A. area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Small enough to be a single-sized dessert, these bakery-style squares have a brown-sugar base, chewy edges and a buttery center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
His first was in late July, days after Burnham entered No 10, when the pair met troops and led a news conference at a naval base in Portsmouth.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Deutsche Bank’s base case is that due to fundamental limitations on the speed AI programs and systems can achieve, we won’t reach superintelligence.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
When most people hear the words “nuclear power plant,” they picture a giant funnel tapering upward from a wide base and belching steam from the top.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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
At one point, he fouled off six straight before drawing a walk to load the bases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
After World War II, the U.S. increasingly relied on military alliances, overseas bases, trade and international institutions to project power.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
Then Teoscar Hernández and Andy Pages hit opposite-field singles to move Ohtani around the bases and give the Dodgers a 1-0 lead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Military base-related income accounts for around five percent of the region's annual total, and some argue that the bases create jobs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
The runners emptied the bases and the game was over.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Bank of France Governor Emmanuel Moulin said the central bank is making policy decisions meeting by meeting based on incoming data.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Al-Nassr's trip to Al-Ahli, also based in Jeddah, has been moved to March.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Some 13% of renters are in their 50s, based on the most recent data from the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
It was not immediately clear based on court records whether Gonzalez had legal representation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
“But,” Ainsley protests, “we need time for real homework. We shouldn’t waste it on made-up projects based on pointless ‘Dear Diary’ entries.”
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
It is also a crucial provider of basing and overflight rights to the U.S. military.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Earlier this year, the Covid inquiry's chair, Baroness Heather Hallett, recommended increasing the payout and basing it on the degree of injury suffered.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
“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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