basic
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The most successful vice presidents are those who understand this basic rule: Their fate is tied to that of their boss.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
“Grantors often direct the trustee to distribute funds only when certain needs arise. Those needs include “medical or dental care, tuition and job training, basic living costs like housing or groceries if desired.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
To simplify the problem, the researchers treated each robot as a basic unit with a small, adjustable amount of variation in its movement.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
“I think folks are catching on that it is time to go back to diversification and basic principles of investing,” he says.
From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026
Discrimination learning occurs by rote, and occurs when a teacher teaches the basic building blocks of music—vocabulary and aural and rhythmic patterns.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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American Naturalization Test, List 1
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