base
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These launches, conducted from a Texas base near protected natural areas, have drawn sharp criticism from advocacy groups in recent years.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
It features the base of an old sewing machine pasted over with a cigar box wrapper and the oft-reoccurring theme of a moon, sun and stars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
“It feels like this is the moment when Cracker Barrel should be broadening its base, and engaging in a strategic shift,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Families are important contributors to a city’s tax base, and middle-class families in particular drive demand for goods, such as affordable groceries, that benefit everyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
They had camped at the base of a bluff.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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
“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
Many would agree that the turmoil and fear of the recent pandemic and lockdown revealed some of our basest human instincts and tendencies, in ways that we are still grappling with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024
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
It WAS basest betrayal to think of anything but Theresa, but they had no choice.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
Safadi was referring to the 2021 defense agreement that allows U.S. forces unfettered access to 12 facilities in Jordan, including five air bases; the agreement was approved via royal decree and bypassed parliament.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
“There are no American bases in Jordan. We have American troops that are in Jordan as part of our long-standing military cooperation,” he said at the Aspen Security Forum earlier this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Squadrons of jet fighters have been staged across the Middle East, and bomber aircraft at bases in the U.S. and U.K. are on high alert to ramp up operations, according to one of the officials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Iran's Revolutionary Guards also said they had targeted US bases in Jordan.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
We even changed the rules of stoop ball, of which I was the absolute King of the World, to include bases when more than one kid played.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
FIFA's statement was a rapid response to a story in British newspapers The Times and The Financial Times based on leaks of the plan from two sources.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
I reached this same conclusion three months ago, based on the fund flow data at that time.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Mr. Arnott is founding chairman of Research Affiliates, an asset management firm based in Newport Beach, Calif.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The NFL holds a 10% equity stake in ESPN, valued at roughly $3 billion based on a $30 billion valuation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
That they believe friendship with each other is based on being mean to everyone else.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
It’s already reflected in stock prices, and investors gain no advantage when basing their stock selections on it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 4, 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 Pentagon chief said the move was also aimed at ensuring US "access, basing and overflight are clearly delineated and assured" after some European imposed restrictions on US forces during the Iran war.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
By basing itself in Irvine, Calif., the Americans have chosen something closer to a corporate retreat—and SoFi Stadium—than a luxury resort.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 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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