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base

[beys] / beɪs /








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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

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

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

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

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

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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