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basis
noun as in physical foundation
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noun as in foundation for belief, action
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If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent.
We see the Southern segregationists who threatened his life and that of his family on an almost daily basis.
Yet the email references the 1970s, “when police officers were ambushed and executed on a regular basis.”
Removing choice is bullying and seems a horrid basis on which to anchor your relationship.
So, I can deal with them on a daily basis, I know how it affects my body.
The m relates it to the nares or humming tone (which is the basis of all resonance in the voice).
A resolute push for quite a short period now might reconstruct the entire basis of our collective human life.
At the present time, certainly, no thought has ever occurred to Germans that they would not go back to a gold basis.
But here in this little valley of the Kaw, he was cheered to see his race on a practical and sensible basis.
The relative quantity of labor embodied in each object is the basis of its value.
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On this page you'll find 140 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to basis, such as: base, footing, ground, support, bed, and bottom.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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