as in beginning
the point at which something begins
any year or event we use as the baseline for the Renaissance is going to be at least somewhat arbitrary
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Recent Examples of baseline
The government program set up to ensure that all Americans have a baseline level of connectivity survived a legal challenge on Friday when the Supreme Court upheld the funding and administrative mechanisms of the FCC’s Universal Service Fund.
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Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 27 June 2025
The opportunities for victory are scant; frustration is the baseline.
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 25 June 2025
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the panel of Fed officials responsible for setting interest rates, is expected to keep its baseline interest rate unchanged Wednesday.
—Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 18 June 2025
The trade framework signed Monday with the United Kingdom included quotas to protect against some tariffs, but the 10% baseline would largely remain as the Trump administration is banking on tariff revenues to help cover the cost of its income tax cuts.
—Josh Boak, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025
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Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 27 June 2025
The opportunities for victory are scant; frustration is the baseline.
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 25 June 2025
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the panel of Fed officials responsible for setting interest rates, is expected to keep its baseline interest rate unchanged Wednesday.
—Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 18 June 2025
The trade framework signed Monday with the United Kingdom included quotas to protect against some tariffs, but the 10% baseline would largely remain as the Trump administration is banking on tariff revenues to help cover the cost of its income tax cuts.
—Josh Boak, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for baseline
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From acorn-sized beginnings to its towering oak tree proportions today, the concept of Citizenship by Investment (CIP) in the Caribbean has developed into a dependable source of foreign capital for countries.—
Jared Mccallister,
New York Daily News,
5 July 2025
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Bayern Munich have won the Champions League on six separate occasions while PSG finally got over the line this season with a stunning 5-0 win over Inter Milan that could mark the beginning of an era of dominance for the French giants.—
Darren Richman,
New York Times,
5 July 2025
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Susan Orlean’s memoir promises insight not only into her start at alt-weeklies, her journalism, and her brilliant narrative nonfiction works, but also provides a blueprint for how to live a creative life.—
Literary Hub
July 1,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
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Clarkson is a good start, but another piece or two seems likely to be added.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 July 2025
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What's especially remarkable is that the system can recreate the user's own voice, thanks to a voice cloning algorithm trained on recordings made before the onset of ALS.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2025
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Severe or repeated vomiting and sudden onset chest pain are two parts of what’s called the Mackler Triad, the trio of signs suggestive of Boerhaave syndrome.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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The journey is a perilous and illuminating one, as Jamie and Isla encounter hordes of infected, as well as an alpha, a hulking and seemingly intelligent evolution of the infected.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
23 June 2025
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Whether this alpha prototype leads to genuine commercial deployment or joins the long list of impressive robotics demonstrations that failed to find market applications will determine not just Humanoid's fate, but potentially the trajectory of the entire humanoid robotics sector.—
Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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Since its inception, in 2000, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which works with local governments to bring vaccines to low-income countries, has helped administer 1.9 billion vaccines and reached a billion children.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
27 June 2025
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Ross has been a foundational voice for AEW since its inception.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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Alternative starting points could include the presentation of renderings, an application for permits, the purchasing of building supplies or the commencement of construction.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
30 June 2025
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Harvard University graduates attend the university’s 374th commencement ceremony on May 29, 2025 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.—
Laya Neelakandan,
CNBC,
30 June 2025
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The preliminary phase of construction includes substantial soil treatment and complex ground preparation at the north portal, where construction of the launch structure for the tunnel boring machine (TBM) is intended to begin in autumn 2026.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 July 2025
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This year is full of fresh beginnings in fashion, with new creative directors presenting launch collections at some of Milan and Paris’s biggest brands.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
6 July 2025
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It is arbitrarily chosen to be the 67% historical probability threshold...—
Marshall Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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At the end of 2024, many Wall Street forecasters expected the broad market index to soar to 7,000 this year or finish just below that threshold, building on two straight years with gains of more than 20% each.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
27 June 2025
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