bases
1 Americannoun
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UCF coach Cindy Ball-Malone pulled Payne when she loaded the bases and gave up a run by hitting a batter.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
Earlier this year, Somalia — whose seaports, airports and military bases have been used for Emirati materiel transfers, investigators say — severed bilateral agreements with the UAE.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
Cuba’s military infrastructure includes naval and air bases throughout the country.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
“When some of those bases are denied to you during a conflict that we’re involved in, then you question whether that value is still there,” he said on Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
To the biochemist Phoebus Levene, one of Avery’s colleagues at Rockefeller University, the comically plain chemical composition of DNA—four bases strung along a chain—suggested an extremely “unsophisticated” structure.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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