base
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De Paula gave a glimpse of his base running ability — he had 31 stolen bases in double-A this season — as he raced to second and touched the base before the tag came down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
In early August, scenario one remained her base case, but the two have since moved closer together in probability, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
His $400 base price target was left untouched.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
A poll conducted earlier this month for Japanese media found only 15% of voters thought the base issue was the biggest in the election.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The base was also creating experimental planes with new shapes that allowed them to fly faster and faster.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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
Detractors said the app catered to the basest human interests — celebrity gossip, scandal, disaster and violence — to keep users hooked as long as possible.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
They prefer stuff like "Warrior Poet Society," because it flatters their basest instincts.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2022
It WAS basest betrayal to think of anything but Theresa, but they had no choice.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
De Paula gave a glimpse of his base running ability — he had 31 stolen bases in double-A this season — as he raced to second and touched the base before the tag came down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
“The memory of living under U.S. military rule runs deep,” said Yuji Fukumoto, who chairs All Okinawa, an organization opposed to U.S. bases on Okinawa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The two "agreed to accelerate force posture initiatives at Australian bases, bolster cooperation in combined logistics, and build greater interoperability through joint exercises," the Pentagon said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
He drove in another run in the ninth, grounding into a fielder’s choice with the bases loaded, as part of a three-run last-ditch rally.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
At their bases in the forest, Soviet missile regiments were on full alert.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
She is an arts and culture journalist, editor and researcher based in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Common letters can certainly be useful, but the mathematical approach continually adjusts its choices based on what has already been learned.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Higher-strength champagne is unlikely to be an obvious selling point, warned Jane Anson, a wine columnist and author based in Bordeaux.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
"I never thought I'd be here. I never thought, based on the first half of the season that I had, that I would be able to make top eight in the world."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
“So the program was put on hold for several years while they studied the flaws and redesigned their approach based on what they had learned.”
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 country is also a source of funds for investment in sectors like artificial intelligence and gives the U.S. military important basing rights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
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
What was in “olde bokes” was to be revered, and even when Chaucer was just making it up, he liked to pretend—though perhaps half in jest—that he was basing his work on a previous text.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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