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In 2023, representatives on the House Transportation Committee proposed a bill that would have allowed airlines to prioritize advertisement of the base fare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The White House said the drone tariff program will protect the security of the U.S. and its defense and defense-adjacent industrial base.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
It’s just syrup and nebulous amounts of whatever base.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Ahead of this 3-1 or 3-2 base, wingers are asked to stay high and wide, resisting the urge to leave their position.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Jared told me they melt down real bars of chocolate to make the base, which is why it’s so rich and thick.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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
“Atavists” focuses on social acuity and awareness, but also how our baser natures exert themselves today: Trudy obsesses over an old friend’s posts on social media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
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
“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
The new arrivals were often broke or close to it, and instantly found themselves in a crowded warren of streets that catered to their basest needs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
The actor and playwright Eric Bogosian blazed a career on Off Broadway stages in the 1980s and ’90s by mucking around in mankind’s basest instincts.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
They prefer stuff like "Warrior Poet Society," because it flatters their basest instincts.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2022
This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
Christian Yelich then singled to load the bases before Sasaki got William Contreras to chase a high fastball and a pair of splitters below the zone for a strikeout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Home Office minister Anna Turley has said the government is sticking with plans to accommodate asylum-seekers on former military bases despite protests from local residents.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
“We did see a shift into more grain bases, into items like pitas, and other items that they felt more comfortable with given the broader industry issues,” CEO Brett Schulman told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
In the meantime, civilian facilities at both bases will be handed over to Damascus.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Each strand of DNA, recall, is a long sequence of “bases”—A, T, G, and C. The bases are linked together by the sugar-phosphate backbone.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Lincoln, normally based in San Diego, set sail in November for a routine deployment to the Pacific.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Genco’s request for $27.50 a share in cash is based on “convoluted valuations” of its net asset value, Diana added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The author is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The individuals behind the suit, based in New York and Florida, include Brent Saunders, chief executive of eye-health company Bausch + Lomb.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
“My brother Wes said they do a different routine based on what's inside them. The chicken ones are wild. The pork ones kind of lazy.”
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
It’s already reflected in stock prices, and investors gain no advantage when basing their stock selections on it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 4, 2026
Israel is one of the locations being considered for basing, according to two of the officials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
She was a major figure in Burnham's Makerfield by-election campaign, basing herself in the constituency, and is in line for a big cabinet job.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 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
The only real difference was that instead of basing their numbers on 60 as the Babylonians did, the Mayans had a vigesimal, base-20 system that had the remnants of an earlier base-10 system in it.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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