basic
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Palestinian Civil Defense teams work with basic and limited equipment to search beneath for bodies in the rubble of bombed out buildings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
So if you bought a basic ticket in December for spring break and canceled in March, you only have a short period to travel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
None of this makes the show’s basic proposition false.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
In their complaint against the deal, 12 US states claim the combined company would control roughly 27 percent of wide-release theatrical film distribution and a similar percentage of basic cable channel licensing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
But he hadn’t understood how strange it would be, how it would set every nerve in his body on edge and make him question all sorts of basic tenets about how the world worked.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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