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base

[beys] / beɪs /








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Dziarski says that BAM is also increasing its diversification by expanding its client base over the last 10 years and bolstering its capital market fees to $250 million.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

The ongoing review will also look into the impact of the team's permanent Kansas City base during the tournament.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

He sees the R2, with a base price of $44,990, as the only serious competitor to Tesla’s Model Y, he said, because other companies’ electric SUVs “aren’t being pushed and aren’t priced right.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 17, 2026

He can play first base, but that takes slugger Andrew Vaughn out of the lineup.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

Hila at last extracted from her bag a thick, heavy-looking candle, which, after furtively glancing about the park, she placed at the base of the plastic tree trunk.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

There may be a baser motive at play: money.

From Slate Sep. 4, 2026

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

And it seemed to Tyrion that the gold and silver and platinum links far outnumbered those of baser metals.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

The actor and playwright Eric Bogosian blazed a career on Off Broadway stages in the 1980s and ’90s by mucking around in mankind’s basest instincts.

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2023

They prefer stuff like "Warrior Poet Society," because it flatters their basest instincts.

From Salon Apr. 29, 2022

Gleefully, she turned on the faithful Robbie, and with the basest of ingratitude, rewarded him for his sacrifice by taunting him cruelly for a lack of running ability.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

Successive U.S.-Danish agreements, dating back to the early months of Nazi Germany’s occupation of Denmark, have given the American military broad rights to station troops, build bases, operate ports or fly warplanes in Greenland.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

The photos came from an unnamed member of the military, who said: "This is major damage to our bases that hasn't been communicated to the American public".

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

Doing so guarantees that at least one of his plate appearances will be with the bases empty and probably more since the bottom of the order precedes him.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

Glasnow hit the next batter, Otto Lopez, on the hand and then walked Jakob Marsee to load the bases.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

Instead, he served two years moving between different military bases.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Christian singled out a detailed five-tier system that would set how many degrees a community college district can offer based on how its student outcomes compare with every other district in the state.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

Investors’ low valuation of Home Depot at its IPO was based on the solid reasoning that a specialty retailer could only grow so large.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

If you’re in the former camp, you presumably have already chosen a stock-bond allocation based on your age, risk tolerance and other financial-planning considerations.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

"As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence presented."

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

The pervasive emptiness and stultifying summer heat were only minor deterrents when compared with the more elemental consideration that all the banking and commercial institutions were based elsewhere, chiefly in Philadelphia and New York.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Because Greece is an EU member, basing there would give Binance access to the entire trading bloc.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 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 point of these various studies is not that we should start basing our investment decisions on weather reports or the phases of the moon.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

The Pentagon chief said the move was also aimed at ensuring US "access, basing and overflight are clearly delineated and assured" after some European imposed restrictions on US forces during the Iran war.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

The only real difference was that instead of basing their numbers on 60 as the Babylonians did, the Mayans had a vigesimal, base-20 system that had the remnants of an earlier base-10 system in it.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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