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Undeterred, the Dodgers kept putting runners on base.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Ohtani clipped Braves catcher Drake Baldwin’s mitt and was awarded first base for catcher’s interference.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
“Iceland’s contribution is being a base, our actual country. Literally,” Iceland’s Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir told The Wall Street Journal in an interview last month on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
He added that he appreciates Marvell’s push into connectivity products and the diversity of its customer base.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Fourteen hundred anti-Castro Cubans were training at a secret base in the mountains of Guatemala.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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
“The Killer” should satisfy those with baser instincts, particularly as it reunites Fincher with “Seven” screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, who adapted Alexis Nolent’s noirish graphic novel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 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
Without inhibition, Ferrier believed that we’d all be slaves to our basest impulses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
And like the former president, Brand has channeled lessons from his early rise, betting on his basest self — and on the accommodations and calculations that those around him have always made.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
They prefer stuff like "Warrior Poet Society," because it flatters their basest instincts.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2022
Variety calls the film, the debut feature from writer-director Wyatt Rockefeller, a “stark, scorched, occasionally jolting sci-fi slow burn in which relocating to the Red Planet can’t save humanity from its basest instincts.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2021
Medill accused him of nurturing the city’s basest instincts but also called him “the most remarkable man that our city has ever produced.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
A U.K. government spokesman said the country’s military bases are safe and declined to comment on the U.S. decision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
At best it could afford a system to protect some key strategic sites – including military bases.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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
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
A total of 1,221 people died, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Investigators, for instance, would not be able to conduct searches based solely on protests or other 1st Amendment-protected activities, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
It was based on actual stuffed toys of the author's son, Christopher Robin Milne.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The company has 65 employees across its headquarters in Palo Alto and an office in Heidelberg, Germany, where Jahnke is based.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The scientists relied on active research and the best scientifically based assumptions they could make.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
Earlier this year, the Covid inquiry's chair, Baroness Heather Hallett, recommended increasing the payout and basing it on the degree of injury suffered.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The analyst estimated that Tesla could generate between $12,000 and $18,000 per month for each vehicle, basing that figure off a subscription fee and an assumed amount of miles driven per month.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 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
More broadly, she can “teach to the test,” basing her lesson plans on questions from past years’ exams, which isn’t considered cheating but may well violate the spirit of the test.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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