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Based

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"Based" in a Sentence (26 examples)

Unpopular take, but honestly based.

Pay will be based on experience and educational background.

Discussion is based upon mutual respect.

In general, the relationship between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

Science is based on very careful observations.

Science is based on careful observation.

Almost all societies now have a money economy based on coins and paper bills of one kind or another.

Corsairfly is an airline based in Paris.

International Business Machines Corporation, based in Armonk, New York, is the world's largest computer firm.

I think that is based on a lack of mutual understanding.

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Some think it is based on love, others on control.

That was a soundly based argument.

It's a new film based on a best-selling novel.

The ladder is based on the even sidewalk for stability.

The company is based in New York.

Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. […] Based is positive.

You have to work as a human with empathy and love in your heart, staying positive and staying based and staying normal.

I hate l'Académie Française, but their spelling reforms are kind of based.

I officially approve of North Korea. This is... this is incredibly based.

OP is based as hell

based and redpilled

My last account got banned for being too based.

Those who are against Trump are not based at all. On February 16th, The Donald users comment on a “based” post in r/DankMemes which uses a classic Squidward sleeping meme to criticize those who are upset by Chris Pratt going to “church” (one which was purportedly anti-LGBT) but “ok” with sex predators in Hollywood: […]

His [Brenton Tarrant's] meme-themed shooting greatly represents the spirit of the aussie people, in the sense of shitposting until their last moment, based and redpilled he is.

Then, in the same month, noted feminist Christina Hoff Sommers was branded “white supremacy-adjacent” by feminist Roxane Gay. Her reasoning? That our beloved “Based Mom” once appeared at an event with Milo Yiannopoulos and didn't disavow him enough.

—There is no ethics in communism—Based.

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