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as in cellar
a room or set of rooms below the surface of the ground
we store our bicycles in the basement during the winter
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as in bottom
the lowest part, place, or point
the basement of the outdoor fountain needs a lot of restoration work
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Recent Examples of basement
Taking the place of No Name Saloon and High West on your nightly circuit could be Sundown Saloon (pool and pitchers in a basement), Jungle (Mai Tais in the Rockies) or Bohemian Biergarten (European beer hall).
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Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025
When Ava fell off a chair and got her neck caught in the slats of a wooden fence in the basement, no one was there to help.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2025
Investigators zeroed in on lead paint in a basement bathroom as the likely source of the child’s lead poisoning.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
On Wednesday night, many of those grateful patrons, including your author, crammed into the basement to witness the last performances on the Hill Country stage.
—Victoria Knight, Axios, 28 Mar. 2025
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Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025
When Ava fell off a chair and got her neck caught in the slats of a wooden fence in the basement, no one was there to help.
—Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2025
Investigators zeroed in on lead paint in a basement bathroom as the likely source of the child’s lead poisoning.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025
On Wednesday night, many of those grateful patrons, including your author, crammed into the basement to witness the last performances on the Hill Country stage.
—Victoria Knight, Axios, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for basement
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No, the team isn’t in the cellar in the division standings already.—
Emily Curiel,
Kansas City Star,
5 Apr. 2025
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Archaeologists found an iron knife with brass stripes dating back to the Roman Empire buried deep beneath the cellar floor of an outbuilding.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2025
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Said gravity-compensation device spins upon two axes: While an inner cage rotates through 360 degrees every 16 seconds, an outer cage spins in the opposite direction once every 60 seconds, forming a small seconds indicator at the bottom of the dial.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
1 Apr. 2025
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For phytoplankton, the organisms sink to the bottom of the ocean during dormancy, and they are eventually covered by sediment over time and preserved by the lack of oxygen.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
1 Apr. 2025
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After restructuring followed the Covid pandemic that battered non-profits across the nation, the 173-year-old Greater Hartford YMCA is fully back on its feet and preparing for a new leader — Jim O'Rourke — to direct it in the years ahead.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
6 Apr. 2025
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The Grand Hyatt Indian Wells is also well set up for meetings of various sizes, with a total of 88,000 square feet of meeting space.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Lefkowitz’s base case implies the broad index will end the year marginally in the red, as his current target of 5,800 suggests the benchmark will slide 1.4% in 2025.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
9 Apr. 2025
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State of play: Supporters of Trump's trade war see it as a path to rebuilding the U.S. manufacturing base — reversing decades of industrial job losses.—
Ryan Deto,
Axios,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Basement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/basement. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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