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bedrock

noun as in basis

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Catholicism is the faith I was baptized in, the one I embraced as a teen and that’s the bedrock for my moral code of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

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Hektoria Glacier had been positioned on an ice plain, a level expanse of bedrock located below sea level.

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More than these particular tariffs are at stake: So is a bedrock principle of American governance.

It’s the same thrill I get from a few bedrock recipes, the ones so deeply memorized they become launchpads for improvisation.

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This extraordinary change, the authors say, could be thanks to an ice plain - a relatively flat area of bedrock on which the glacier lightly rests.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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