basis
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Revenue stood at $9.7 billion, up 14% on a comparable basis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Uefa has asked Fifa to "clarify the nature, amount and basis of these payments, why they were not disclosed and whether they were reviewed and approved by the competent Fifa bodies."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
A basis point is one hundredth of a percentage point, or 0.01%.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
The board replaced Adalbert Lechner—who has been with the company for 33 years—with Dieter Weisskopf on an interim basis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
There were, to be sure, important political and ideological differences between the two men, differences that became the basis for the opposing sides they took in the party wars of the 1790s.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, where the fire broke out, is one of the country's busiest military training bases.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
While the U.S. military presence in the Gulf almost surely will shrink as a result of the damage to U.S. bases in Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the U.S. isn’t likely to abandon the kingdom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
We certainly didn’t have all those bases covered when we moved to Cuenca, Ecuador, 16 years ago.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
After World War II, the U.S. increasingly relied on military alliances, overseas bases, trade and international institutions to project power.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
By coincidence, Pauling and Corey had also suggested a triple helix, with the bases A, C, G, and T pointed outside.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade 11)
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"Democracy in America, Vol. 1" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Introduction–Chapter 5
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