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The phrase "address a basic" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to refer to addressing a basic issue or concept, but as it stands, it is incomplete and ambiguous.
Example: "We need to address a basic misunderstanding in our communication."
Alternatives: "tackle a fundamental" or "discuss a basic".
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But they rarely address a basic question: Where does the money come from?
"People, generally speaking, are not committing crime to address a basic need for food or shelter," he said in a recent interview at 1 Police Plaza.
So he and his colleague, Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, devised a statistical tool to address a basic question: Do investments in health really lead to health improvements?
The research literature has been more prolific on lower-limb devices: a main reason is that they address a basic but fundamental motion task, walking.
Kathryn Schulz's review of "The Man Who Invented the Computer," by Jane Smiley, fails to address a basic issue: Is the book true, or at least consistent with the consensus about the development of the computer ("Binary Breakthrough," Nov. 28)?
Few really believed the PML-N then because, even if true, the argument was self-serving and didn't address a basic problem: Khan was clearly tapping into a mine of public discontent with the PPP and PML-N's status quo politics.
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First Book (firstbook.org) addresses a basic problem facing poor kids in America: They don't have books.
Indeed, the basic strategies of knowledge that emerged in the West addressed a basic problem: skulls don't scale.
But it could have been even more valuable if it had addressed a basic reality: we do not have unlimited funds.
In addressing a basic question that no previous study has adequately answered, it pursues an ambitious synthesis of a number of fields usually kept separate: oral theory, paleography, syntax, and prosody.
It's because the sign addressed a basic principle we seldom talk about: this idea that humans are expected to communicate truthfully with one another — and that said connection is not only desirable, it's also stylish, a trend of an emotional ideal.
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