basic
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The UN's refugee agency said on Tuesday that food shortages were widespread, basic services had broken down and communications had been largely severed in La Guaira.
From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026
Dissenting in the Wilcox order last year, Justice Elena Kagan described those agencies, the NLRB, the FTC, and the Fed among them, as the product of “one basic vision.”
From Slate • Jun. 30, 2026
AI is increasingly being billed by usage, and the price of tokens, the basic unit of AI computing, has been volatile.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026
"Platforms and products disproportionately fail us in basic safety, data privacy, transparency, and accuracy -- including perpetuating factually incorrect information about our lives."
From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026
But he hadn’t understood how strange it would be, how it would set every nerve in his body on edge and make him question all sorts of basic tenets about how the world worked.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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