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Example sentences for: basics

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Under Bush's proposal, states would be required to test their "disadvantaged" students on academic basics every year.
Watson had the sense that the Justice Department wanted the FBI to get back to the investigative basics: guns, drugs, and civil rights.
leav[es] the heart unengaged" (Frank Scheck, the Hollywood Reporter ). The litany of problems starts with basics like the acting and dancing: Its cast of unknowns "is jarringly unbalanced," and "as a dance show, it has two left feet" (Brantley).
We got to go back to the basics; they need to start taking a group and start sending them out to seminars.
After all, concentrate on the basics, carry a knife, a piece of string and some money; then you can cut, tie and buy.