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Badenoch insists the party is now on a firmer footing and has begun to set out a new policy agenda, thanks to the groundwork she laid in the first few months.

The two property developers are likely to start laying the groundwork for the process as early as next year, the people said.

Three years later, their partnership has produced an unprecedented body of knowledge about hundreds of protist species and laid the groundwork for a "planetary atlas" of plankton.

Laying the groundwork methodically — researching costs and benefits and enlisting experts to ease the transition — works better for those sure they have found the right spot to retire.

Is he setting the groundwork to challenge the integrity of U.S. elections by citing his baseless claims about fraud in 2020 and putting fellow election deniers in charge of reviewing the system?