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When Dick’s bought Foot Locker last year, the move had the potential to increase Dick’s customer base in urban areas, where Foot Locker stores were concentrated, complementing Dick’s stores in the suburbs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
The peacekeepers and thousands of refugees, mostly women and children, retreat into the UN base, while thousands of others gather outside.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The culprit behind the cruise-ship chaos, after all, is the AI robot who first serves drinks on the ship and then proceeds to wipe out the employee base of Cartoon Network.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The surgery involved inserting an endoscope - a thin camera on a stick - via the nose to the base of the skull.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
They’d met at the air base three years earlier.
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
For years and years, he has stepped out over the line, then crafted work — music, fashion or otherwise — that appeared to justify, or at least partially excuse, his baser impulses.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
And it seemed to Tyrion that the gold and silver and platinum links far outnumbered those of baser metals.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
Detractors said the app catered to the basest human interests — celebrity gossip, scandal, disaster and violence — to keep users hooked as long as possible.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
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
The battlefield losses and damage to U.S. equipment and bases raised questions over what the U.S. was gaining from the conflict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
There has been a series of unauthorised drone flights in recent months over sensitive sites in Germany including military bases, airports, energy terminals, seaports and logistics companies.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
They have targeted civilian infrastructure, including water desalination plants and energy installations, along with bases hosting American troops.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 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
The two rocks then slid back to their original bases.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
“The purpose of the Council is to help shape the administration’s economic development policies based on direct feedback from business leaders across key sectors,” a spokesman for the mayor said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The amount of water data centres consume can change based on size, design and local climate - the hotter the area the more water needed to cool the equipment.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Most opportunities for filmmaking are still based in the San Juan metropolitan area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Still, same-store sales at the shoe chain likely fell 3.6% during the second quarter, based on adjustments factoring in the timing of the acquisition.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
I like to guess what people will order, based on what they’re wearing, how they walk, what accent they have.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
La Guaira's Governor Jose Alejandro Teran, however, last week said 1,338 people were missing, basing the count on a residential registry.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
It’s already reflected in stock prices, and investors gain no advantage when basing their stock selections on it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 4, 2026
The U.S. military first secured basing rights in the kingdom in 1945 and expanded them during the wars with Iraq.
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
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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