baseline
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During their first two visits, participants received a baseline MRI and walked on a pressure sensitive treadmill while motion capture cameras measured the mechanics of their gait.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
A super El Nino would push sea temperatures up, from a baseline that is already often too warm for corals.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
Fire Department spokesperson Andrew Dowd said monitoring had been “deployed to establish a background air quality, so that if the fire advances further into that sensitive area we would have a baseline to compare against.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
You have to be careful and check there hasn't been any sewage discharge on the day or soon before and you should be fine but there will always be a baseline level of pollution.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
Her father must have noticed as well, because after a time-out, Jackie moved to the baseline and played a more defensive strategy.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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