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Examples of power base in a Sentence
Both candidates are doing whatever they can to raise money from their power bases.
Most of her power base is in the city.
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Consider a booking coup: On Thursday evening, Lawrence O’Donnell will have an exit interview with President Biden, underscoring the channel’s relevance with the party power base.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025
The Wagner Group, the Russian mercenary outfit with close ties to the Kremlin, which has used the conflict to build up its own power base, has offered prisoners a way out of their sentences by volunteering for the front.
—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2022
Or, if buying qualifying mattresses with an ease power base, plus a $200 instant gift automatically applied in your cart.
—Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Dec. 2024
Yet, after the successes of the civil rights movement in the 1960s threatened to dilute his power base, the governor joined forces with special interest groups to promote policies intended to protect big business at the expense of everyday Alabamans.
—Brucie Porter / Made By History, TIME, 5 Dec. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1959, in the meaning defined above
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“Power base.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/power%20base. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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