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basement

[bays-muhnt] / ˈbeɪs mənt /


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I’d like to report that these ideas about women’s domestic responsibilities have since retired to the church basement, alongside the folding chairs and industrial coffee urns.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

"There were some businesses in the basement, and workers who were busy building," said local resident Abdi Aziz, 25.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

On the second day, he was driven to a building near the front line and brought to a basement room.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Truthfully, I knew since I was very young that it was something I always wanted to do. I was belting Avril Lavigne in the basement with all the doors locked.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Dad is in the basement, as usual, reviewing math curriculum for his tutoring job.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

“Journalists say the same sort of thing about Moscow: That it’s very dangerous and that people are hiding in their basements from the drones,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Larger homes, attics, basements, garages and spare bedrooms reduce the urgency to make choices.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

In cellars and basements across the city, African-Americans hosted parties where white and black New Yorkers regularly shared the dance floor, imbibed together and sometimes got into fisticuffs that prompted the intervention of neighborhood watchmen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

It ushered in a new kind of fun that was fresher, busier and airier than past listservs and chatrooms, the dank basements of internet interaction.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

If left alone, the groundwater would continue to flow toward the sea, carrying radioactive isotopes from the reactors with it, so workers pumped hundreds of gallons of water from the reactor basements every day.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland


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