your basic
Example Sentences
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The Federal Reserve also matches contributions up to 5% of your basic pay — dollar-for-dollar on the first 3% and 50 cents on the dollar for the next 2%.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 20, 2026
It is, in short, your basic “High School Musical”-“Glee”-“Smash”-“Waiting for Guffman”-type community-theater situation comedy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
So if your basic goal is to figure out who's loyal and who's not, you need to push a narrative that is against a large number of people's basic way of understanding things.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025
"It's intimidating, it’s a threat to your basic security, your financial security and your sense of wellbeing."
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024
So finally I get bored in the down under and I'm hanging out in the so-called back yard, your basic chunk of chain-link heaven.
From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick
