basis
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The increase in revenue came as total volumes turned positive, rising 1.2% on an organic basis from the prior-year period after falling in 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
In 2024, he hired investigators after a former co-host was accused of grooming a teenager, with lawyers later finding the allegations were "without basis".
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
This data, including up to half a billion images of nature, will form the basis for the creation of a variety of AI artworks, including “Machine Dreams.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
“Individuals who lived, fed, groomed and patrolled together for years became targets of lethal attacks on the basis of their new group membership,” the authors reported recently in the journal Science.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
He even tried working with plants—peas, of all things—to understand the basis of hereditary instructions.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing basis
PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade 11)
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"Democracy in America, Vol. 1" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Introduction–Chapter 5
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