Thesaurus results for BASING

basing

verb

present participle of base

as in predicating

to find a basis she based her argument on careful research

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Recent Examples of basing The immediate follow through confirmed the breakout, adding conviction that bitcoin is in long-term basing phase and June-July marked the bottom. — Lee Ying Shan,ananya Chetia, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026 Overall, Red Sea basing to date has focused more on crisis response in East Africa, countering and competing against Russia and China. — Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Its strategic forward basing in Guam boosts warfighting readiness, demonstrating the Virginia-class platform's endurance and effectiveness in the Western Pacific. — Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 The Wingman does bring along significant weight, however, basing in at 551 lb (250 kg) – much more than most camping toppers and comparable to an ultralight full-floored slide-in truck camper. — New Atlas, 15 July 2026 The article said that Joshua Michael Stern, the showrunner for the series, also wrote it, basing it off a story by Jane Whitney and Michael Rosenbaum. — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2026 Those allegations were a main reason more than 1,200 colleges and universities stopped requiring SAT scores in 2020 and 2021, instead basing admission on factors like GPA, essays, and extracurriculars. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 22 June 2026 Locked out of homebuying, Gen Z is also investing in the stock market earlier than other generations did, but many are basing decisions on social media influencers and FOMO (fear of missing out) rather than more certified picks. — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 8 June 2026 Rely on simple, hands-off strategies like withdrawing only dividends and interest, basing calculations on your current lifestyle, or pulling just your RMDs. — ABC News, 26 May 2026

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With everyone predicating their behavior on everyone else’s, norms shift rapidly, and complicated feedback effects ensue.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025

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The increasing chances of being taken, whether one is in a church, mosque, school, on a trip to the capital Abuja or resting at home, is a grim reality that should not be the case given Tinubu’s firm campaign pledges.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 31 Aug. 2026
And then there were polar bears again, this time resting quietly in the hills.

— Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

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According to OpenEvidence, grounding its responses in medical literature and providing citations is intended to make the origins of the information clearer.

— Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Ultimately, that grounding data layer is what lets AI deliver care recommendations patients and members can trust.

— Morgan Beschle, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026

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