basis
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Policymakers raised the benchmark rate by 25 basis points to 5.50% and announced measures to help steady the rupiah, including incentives to encourage foreign investment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
The EU will now accelerate the process by adopting a "testbed", a simplified testing approach that will let companies avoid having to obtain approval on a country-by-country basis.
From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026
Even so, these two low-volatility indexes have continued to beat the overall market on a risk-adjusted basis.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026
At the time Ramaphosa said there was "no basis for the claims of criminal conduct".
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
The first anatomist regularly to disagree with Galen on the basis of direct experience was Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, whose Anatomy was published in 1535, only a few years before Vesalius’s Fabric.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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