basement
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Once, someone laid down a broken door, which they had stored in their basement, underneath a car.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
VanderMeer, who learned on a machine in her parents’ basement in Elmira, N.Y., made the cut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Read more: Micron was started by a few guys in an Idaho basement.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
But step past the luxury façade into the basement, and the quiet disappears.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Before running out the door, she tells Dad the four of us will be sleeping in the basement, which is part laundry room, part guest room, and mostly unfinished storage space.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
In an old building, there is a good chance that infrasound is present, particularly in basements where aging pipes and ventilation systems produce low-frequency vibrations.
From Science Daily ● May 3, 2026
With first-time buyers as their intended customers, the company’s innovations included lowering prices by building homes on slabs, instead of digging costly basements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
Other local residents scurried to take cover in basements.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
We visited a few of them, hidden away in basements of wrecked buildings or nondescript village houses.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
One writer who signed his name “A Hint” said the cause of the fever was the stinking barrels of rotting garbage routinely found in backyards and basements.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
