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By allegedly targeting child users, Meta "chose to exploit" young people in order to hook them on its platforms, so it could grow its user base and expand its business.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
When easyJet lacks staff at an airport, they are called in from another base, which must then fill its own gaps, said Bourdon.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
New homeowners might base their budget for utility costs on conversations with their real-estate agent, or even the previous homeowner.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
The same report notes that the DSA member base has become younger and more white-collar, with its greatest appeal to college-educated urban dwellers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
As soon as the white car disappeared down the DeLunas’ drive, I picked myself up and headed out through the fields, then around the base of the mountain.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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
Bizarre as all of this is, Ackman’s self-promotion has obscured a perhaps far baser motivation for attacking Harvard.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
“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
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
And not only the real — after all, even the basest trivialities are real — but the omnipresent, the immanent and the imminent, the stuff of being and nonbeing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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
Home Office minister Anna Turley has said the government is sticking with plans to accommodate asylum-seekers on former military bases despite protests from local residents.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
“We did see a shift into more grain bases, into items like pitas, and other items that they felt more comfortable with given the broader industry issues,” CEO Brett Schulman told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Yet the U.S. isn’t sufficiently prepared to defend its overseas bases, critical infrastructure and personnel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
In the meantime, civilian facilities at both bases will be handed over to Damascus.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
The bases face in, like treads in a circular staircase.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The HBO Max series is based on DC comic book characters and is set within the same universe as films like “Superman” and “Supergirl” and the TV series “Peacemaker.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
It estimates staying put costs British savers around £12bn in missed interest every year, based on analysis of Financial Conduct Authority data.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Despite his technical experience, Yang said most of his content is based on questions he has had or his own individual wealth strategies, similar to creators with less experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
According to models based on QCD, that means too few quarks were being stopped to account for all the baryons appearing in the detector.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Of course. It’s called parasocial interaction—when someone in your audience feels like they know you based on the persona you’ve created.”
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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
Israel is one of the locations being considered for basing, according to two of the officials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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
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
“Are you basing all this on the way you felt about Dad and the divorce?”
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
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