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The base rates for water and power have not changed since July 2019, but pass-through adjustments can fluctuate annually to cover costs due to fuel or inflation, according to the DWP.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The country’s domestic supply has withered since World War II, leaving a small number of deteriorated and overburdened suppliers, an industrial base frozen in the 1940s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

A few kilometres from the base lies the town of Taura, a community of around 9,400 people connected by dusty roads and surrounded by shrimp farms.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

Carpenter and King have preferred to keep their batches small and their marketing limited to word of mouth, but that word is spreading, especially across their ravenous genre-loving fan base.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Callaway stopped beside a large outcropping of rocks at the base of the mountain and turned to the security patrol.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

The algorithm didn’t exist when I was shopping for studded belts in Spring Valley — it was a baser instinct thing, something my brain had an immediate and raw reaction to.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 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

Without inhibition, Ferrier believed that we’d all be slaves to our basest impulses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

While it was daring in its hard-R riskiness and played on our basest fears, it didn’t reinvent the wheel, or even try to.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 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

The buildup comes less than a year after Ecuadorans voted against allowing foreign military bases, and has prompted questions from even within the highest ranks of Ecuador's armed forces.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

NBC News revealed that “the U.S. military has been quietly scaling back its troop presence at bases across the Middle East as well.”

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

The Rays struck out less than anybody, paced the AL in stolen bases and bunted more than any team in a decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, where the fire broke out, is one of the country's busiest military training bases.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

The bases face in, like treads in a circular staircase.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

It was launched in the 1980s to help government agencies verify individuals' eligibility for government benefits based on their immigration status.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The most sensible way to regulate these activities is based on their market structure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Panic selling is when an investor sells stocks based on fear or short-term swings rather than a clear analysis of the business behind the stock.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

Their conclusions about the cells' possible protective roles are based on patterns observed in brain tissue, not direct experiments demonstrating those functions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

He even had the commercial smarts to form a film syndicate, based on the fame of his expedition photographer, an Australian named Frank Hurley.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Washington has sent billions of dollars in military and economic support over the years, as well as used the kingdom as a basing point in the Iran war, drawing missile fire from Tehran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

“Well, that’s an interesting way to put together a reading list, basing it on bookcase elevation...”

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein