home base
AmericanEtymology
Origin of home base
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55
Example Sentences
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Spotify opened its new Sycamore podcasting studios earlier this year as a home base for its podcast network, The Ringer.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
In its French home base, the group is letting 200 staff go in voluntary departures from its Paris HQ.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
Davidson is understood to still have a home base in Brooklyn in the form of a brownstone rental.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
The moment marked the crescendo of a whirlwind weekend for the president and his team, with Trump using his glitzy Mar-a-Lago residence as a home base for monitoring the unfolding attack.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
But then, not looking to the right or left, she did not see the runner stealing home base.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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