baselines

plural of baseline

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Recent Examples of baselines Future experiments, including the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) in the US and Japan’s Hyper-Kamiokande, are expected to build on this foundation and offer even longer baselines and more powerful detectors to trace how neutrinos shift flavors across greater distances. Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025 Metabolic tests can be helpful baselines to assess your risk of developing all sorts of conditions, including heart disease. Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 17 Oct. 2025 Risk-mapping across business units, reassessing compliance as a governance responsibility, and exploring voluntary certifications or alliances establish new baselines for trust and safety. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025 By establishing baselines of normal network behavior, anomalies become immediately apparent, enabling rapid threat investigation. Douglas Murray, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025 When play resumed in the third quarter, the clocks at the top of the backboard were back in working condition, and the reserve equipment on the baselines were taken back into storage. Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2025 On court, Annie and Helen spray their shots with unrestrained ferocity, aiming not for the baselines but for each other’s torsos. Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025 Last year, Beijing released a list of 16 base points connected by straight baselines around Scarborough Shoal, an atoll that China seized from the Philippines in a 2012 standoff. Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025 This includes population baselines that need to be maintained in specific bear management units for regulated hunting to continue. Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for baselines
Noun
  • Esther isn’t using their beginnings as a weapon, but as a lesson.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
  • During the interview, the singer discussed success and her career beginnings and shared that her dream was to become a movie director.
    Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Lozano has had an up-and-down season, limited to 22 starts (out of 34 MLS games) by nagging hamstring injuries, logging nine goals and 10 assists but growing visibly frustrated on the field with incessant fouling by opponents and tactical congestion.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In his first three postseason starts, Snell has allowed just two runs on six hits over 21 innings.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • If there is a potential for temperatures to fall into these thresholds, a freeze watch may be issued a few days ahead of time.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2025
  • So far, the EU’s ecodesign for sustainable products regulation, which will include pro-circularity mandates for certain thresholds of recycled content, the use of digital product passports and a ban on destroying unsold consumer goods, has been allowed to continue apace largely unscathed.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Baselines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baselines. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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