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Example sentences for: basics

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Presumably, everyone in Washington is familiar with that picture; but since my correspondents obviously weren't, let me trace out the basics.
We got to go back to the basics; they need to start taking a group and start sending them out to seminars.
"We deal in the basics, and all those basics are necessary necessities," said a smiling CEO, patiently explaining to some CNNfn reporter that the company would thrive even in an economic downturn.
Watson had the sense that the Justice Department wanted the FBI to get back to the investigative basics: guns, drugs, and civil rights.
Adams recommended focusing on the basics: who, what, where, when and how.