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How to use the word basically in a Sentence?

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That heat pump is basically run from heat in the ground, the fuel is basically the Earth source heat.

Arlene Anderson

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1 year ago

Basically, we’re concerned about them being able to continue their college pathway if they’re up against both legal as well as monetary barriers to taking care of themselves.

Courtney Brown

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1 year ago

They have had basically a lost 20 years, and in addition a fairly lame 10 years.

Jeremy Grantham

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1 year ago

It’s basically a ricotta cheesecake, but it’s super savory – to the max.

Rossella Rago

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1 year ago

They took out the seats, the carpets, the panels – basically everything in the aircraft that they could strip at that point, they did, but once again, unfortunately with no success.

Rudolf Erasmus

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1 year ago

You could imagine reading a text … and every letter is a different font, or every letter is a different size, then the text is much harder to read. And this is basically what we do in codon pair deoptimization.

Emanuel Wyler

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1 year ago

They will be very important in order to know where whether this kind of attempt is basically promising or not.

Emanuel Wyler

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1 year ago

There’s a lot of speculation about about environmental factors, but how many of them are truly causally associated? we are bombarded with a variety of environmental stressors in our everyday lives. We have to figure out how to basically safely navigate them, and this is probably not one that’s high on our list.

Max Wiznitzer

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1 year ago

We’re fighting for justice and liberty, just like the American story, that’s the values that that are being represented symbolized back when we look at our flag, that’s something that was lacking lacking for the last few decades. So basically, we reclaim the flag.

Yiftach Golov

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1 year ago

We cannot basically have a divided country, and we cannot withstand that.

Joe Manchin

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1 year ago

What I’ve basically said is let’s fill the vacancies – and one of the ways you fill the vacancies is you slow the exodus of officers.

Paul Vallas

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1 year ago

And I think that also kind of signals the escalation that the Russians are taking by taking a journalist and wrongfully detaining them and basically taking them hostage.

Trevor Reed

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1 year ago

Obviously, those charges sound extremely fishy, charging a journalist with espionage, and I think that also kind of signals the escalation that the Russians are taking by taking a journalist and wrongfully detaining them and basically taking them hostage.

Trevor Reed

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1 year ago

We’re basically constantly in a state of recovery in response to climate disasters, this is why we are so passionate on the climate change front, because this is our reality, and we need to deal with it, and we need other countries to assist us to deal with it.

Ralph Regenvanu

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1 year ago

We’re really disappointed we didn’t see something lesser in scope, this is basically offering up most of the Gulf, it’s another massive lease sale.

George Torgun

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1 year ago

I had eight weeks over the summer and four weeks over the winter, so I would take those breaks and basically the minute the school would break up, I would be on a plane and then I would n’t land until the day before it started back up again.

Jemma Warner-Gregory

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1 year ago

We are not going to hand over control of nuclear weapons. The US does n’t hand it over to its allies. We’re basically doing the same thing( The US leaders) have been doing for a decade.

The US

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1 year ago

We know that smoking, alcohol, lack of physical activity, being overweight or obese, increased consumption of red meat – so basically, dietary factors and environmental and lifestyle factors – are likely playing a big role, there are also some other factors, such as the growing incidence of inflammatory bowel disease, that may also be playing a role, and I think the biggest factors is most likely the diet, the lifestyle and the environmental factors.

Ohio State University

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1 year ago

The purpose of our report is basically to reveal the human rights violations that have taken place within North Korea’s penal systems. (It) finds that even 10 years after the UN established a Commission of Inquiry there still is systematic and widespread human rights violations.

Kim Jiwon

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1 year ago

Historically, the demand’s been cyclical, the busy season is kind of March to late summer. Basically it’s full time now, we’ve hired staff to increase the adjudicative capacity to make sure that … we’ve got the customer service, phone lines manned, we have more people in the pipeline and that’s also reflected in the budget. It’s hugely important.

Antony Blinken

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1 year ago

No, I have no regrets, i’ve learned through life that regrets only hold you back and basically make you live in the past. And I don’t want to do that. I also don’t want to live too much in the future. I want to be as much as in the present moment, but of course think about future, create a better future. Novak Djokovic has spent more weeks at No. 1 than any other player. Carl Recine/Reuters.

Novak Djokovic

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1 year ago

There’s perhaps a stigma associated with this word (3D printing), usually with printing you think of an industrial process. (But) it’s important to realize that this is no different than cooking normally except instead of chopping the ingredients up and everything like that, the machine is basically just assembling it in paste form.

Jonathan Blutinger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If it were not for The Bail Project, the things that they did, I can not – I really, truly ca n’t tell you, it was us falling without a parachute, and somebody showing up basically right on time.

Trey Dozier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Each time there is opposition from public opinion, then little by little the project passes and basically, public opinion is resigned to it.

Pascal Perrineau

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1 year ago

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