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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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The group’s goal is to build a nonpartisan power base for county residents to work on issues ranging from housing and public safety to mental health and more.
—Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
The election results and gargantuan crowds at his rallies point to Khan upending the PML-N’s traditional power base in Punjab.
—Madiha Afzal, Foreign Affairs, 24 Nov. 2022
The strategic garrison town, the largest in Shan state, is the seat of the junta’s regional Northeastern Military Command and the center of its power base in Myanmar’s northeast and areas near the Chinese border, with about 40 battalions under its command.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
At several points over the past 16 years, Hamas even considered arrangements in which its rival, the PA, would take over some of its responsibilities while Hamas maintained its military forces and power base as part of a unity government.
—Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 30 July 2024
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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 Nov. 2024.
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