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[bays] / beɪs /








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He started life on third or fourth base.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

He said the company has broadened its customer base to include multiple hyperscalers — or large cloud companies that provide computing power.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

The apartment served as a base camp after he released his memoir, “I Was Wrong,” and plotted a national book tour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The South Korean refiner is a global leader in premium lubricant base oils, producing about 80,000 barrels of Group III base oils a day, Chung writes in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 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

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

Many would agree that the turmoil and fear of the recent pandemic and lockdown revealed some of our basest human instincts and tendencies, in ways that we are still grappling with.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024

And like the former president, Brand has channeled lessons from his early rise, betting on his basest self — and on the accommodations and calculations that those around him have always made.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

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

From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2022

This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

In the third, the Dodgers loaded the bases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

A U.K. government spokesman said the country’s military bases are safe and declined to comment on the U.S. decision.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Only making wagers from a designated fund means you can play knowing you could lose 100% of your wager and still be OK, because you’ve covered your bases first.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Japanese authorities are, for example, hard-pressed to conduct an on-site probe into alleged environmental pollution inside the bases and regulate low-altitude flights of their aircraft.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The alarm was connected to other bases and airports all around the Great Lakes region.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Some German producers also gained an advantage due to disruptions to supplies of raw materials from the Gulf to chemical companies based in Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

A total of 1,221 people died, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Investigators, for instance, would not be able to conduct searches based solely on protests or other 1st Amendment-protected activities, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

For example, one world's mechanics, based on those from the free 2014 game Mirror Isles by Alan Hazelden, sees players use mirror reflections to swap places across islands.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

“You weren’t designed based on some real little girl, someone I might have known once upon a time?”

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

It’s already reflected in stock prices, and investors gain no advantage when basing their stock selections on it.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 4, 2026

She has been a major figure in Burnham's Makerfield campaign, basing herself in the constituency, and is line for a big cabinet job.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 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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