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In June, a US plan to establish an Ebola treatment facility at a military base in the central Kenyan town of Nanyuki sparked concern, with Kenyans reacting furiously about the risks of cross-border infection.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Representation comes and goes, but the fan base a comedian creates for themselves stays with them, Blaine said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
He started life on third or fourth base.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Anderson, who sat at the base of midfield for much of the World Cup has, as a result, been deployed in a more varied role.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Baguio is home of the Philippine Military Academy and Camp John Hay, an American base that has been overtaken by the Japanese.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
There may be a baser motive at play: money.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
When they try to save guinea pigs from an animal testing lab, though, their baser instincts take over and Snake ends up swallowing the poor creatures instead of freeing them.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
“My poor, hungry little bird, soon you will be freed from your baser appetites.”
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
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
He only wavered in the fifth, loading the bases with a pair of singles and a four-pitch walk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Only making wagers from a designated fund means you can play knowing you could lose 100% of your wager and still be OK, because you’ve covered your bases first.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Some argue, however, the military bases create jobs and help boost Okinawa's local economy, accounting for around five percent of the region's annual income.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Iran has targeted other British bases abroad during the war, including Akrotiri in Cyprus and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Although the master spy Sargo remained elusive, his networks were quickly destroyed, and so were his radio stations and power bases.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Kagan, of France’s Université Paris-Sud, and Soai, who is based at Tokyo University of Science, will share the 12 million Swedish kronor, or roughly $1.2 million, prize.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
If a planet doesn't have an atmosphere, its star-facing, day side should be as hot as theoretically possible based on how reflective its surface is and its distance from the star.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Luria’s target is based on the idea that investors could come to assign a greater value to every dollar that Micron earns.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Under Scots law, archaeological finds discovered in Scotland must be reported to the Treasure Trove Unit, external, based at NMS, where they are recorded and assessed.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
States with small populations feared that large states would be too powerful and overwhelm them if votes were based on population alone.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Despite being a lifelong Sunderland fan, Chandler admits basing his team on Kevin Keegan's Newcastle - with entertainment even placed above winning.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
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
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
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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