basis
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The 30-year rate for home loans was up 5 basis points in one week.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Since it was predicting something that hadn’t happened yet, they didn’t have a basis for trusting it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
It’s a powerful, relatable basis for fiction or memoir or some combination of the two.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
He has suggested a new model for the sector could emulate Greater Manchester's bus network, where private operators bid to run services on a franchise basis, with local authorities controlling fares, timetables and routes.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
His study discussed transformation as a curiosity of microbial biology, but never explicitly mentioned the discovery of a potential chemical basis of heredity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Japan has hosted US military bases ever since its surrender in World War II.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
There have been a series of unauthorised drone flights in Germany in recent months over sensitive sites including military bases, airports, energy terminals, seaports and logistics companies.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Germany and other European countries have repeatedly observed drones flying over sensitive sites such as airports, military bases and industrial plants.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Their production is directed by codons, groups of three DNA bases that provide cellular instructions for making individual amino acids.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
When a strand of DNA is used to build the RNA message, it is the pairing of bases between DNA and RNA that allows a gene to generate its RNA copy.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade 11)
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"Democracy in America, Vol. 1" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Introduction–Chapter 5
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