base
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His base case continues to be that the Fed chair’s challenges on inflation and bond yields, the upcoming midterm elections and the end of earnings season catalysts will prolong the near-term choppiness.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Yet Cusk has found a large fan base for her work, mainly because she is a deft excavator of the human psyche, a writer who can articulate emotional states with uncanny precision and insight.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
She could live with her mother and keep her job as a secretary at the nearby Marine base.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
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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
And like the former president, Brand has channeled lessons from his early rise, betting on his basest self — and on the accommodations and calculations that those around him have always made.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
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
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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
"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
Beyond Subic Bay, the U.S. has formal access to nine Philippine bases and airports where it can rotate forces, build infrastructure and store equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
By coincidence, Pauling and Corey had also suggested a triple helix, with the bases A, C, G, and T pointed outside.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Their thesis is based on the Kondratieff cycle, which suggests 40 to 60-year cycles of surges and then declines.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Its reserves for legal claims, which are based on expectations for future claims including those involving mold, rose 57% to $1.1 billion from the end of fiscal 2022 to the end of fiscal 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Some 75% of sales of pieces including amethyst, sea glass and agates from her business, CindyLouWho2, based in Calgary, Alberta, come from Americans.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
That distinction could be important because medications are often grouped together in microbiome research based on their drug class.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
For each question, you will have ten seconds to make your selection on your phone screen. Lemoncello.it will instantaneously calculate your score based on correctness and speed of answering.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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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
The about-face on basing also put the biggest strain on Saudi-American military relations in recent years and triggered a spate of tense phone calls between Trump and the Saudi crown prince.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
A Nato spokesperson later clarified that Rutte had simply meant to highlight how allies, Italy included, had honoured existing bilateral basing agreements.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 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
More broadly, she can “teach to the test,” basing her lesson plans on questions from past years’ exams, which isn’t considered cheating but may well violate the spirit of the test.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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