"The music here is more complicated and harder, but I think it's partly because it's also with woodwinds and brass, basically with a band.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

It's basically a parking lot." The Newseum, a museum of news in Washington,D.C., has an exhibit called "Woodstock at 40: The Rise of Music Journalism."

VOA: special.2009.08.10

A hoop house is basically a metal frame covered with plastic or other all-weather material.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

"If the monsoon basically fails or is a very weak one, the trees affected by monsoons at that location might put on a very narrow ring.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

"This is Derek and I have another son,Dillon. I basically looked through baby books and just found names that I thought were a little bit different.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

the ocean basically is unexplored from the point of view of marine organisms."

VOA: special.2009.01.13

And basically ten percent of us buy ninety percent of the wine.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

"Basically it's a freedom of expression," she says.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

"We discovered this bicycle co-op. You can come in there and just sort through a whole garage of old parts and they'll teach you how to basically build a bicycle from the scraps."

VOA: special.2011.05.20

So basically, if we were to place a baby on the mother's abdomen, the baby would actually crawl up the mother's chest and choose which breast it would like to latch on to.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

"So what we're hoping to do is build this device that would transform basically visual information into auditory information and then tap this amazing reservoir of the blind brain to process sounds and tactile information."

VOA: special.2010.10.13

"And then when you look at how it's taught, you have some teachers who are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for ten,fifteen minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for sixty to seventy minutes a day which really for handwriting is pretty much death."

VOA: special.2009.10.29

"GAVI's goal over the next five years, by twenty-fifteen, is to immunize millions more children and save an additional four million children's lives, purely by providing basic vaccines against diseases that are basically almost non-existent in rich countries, as well as providing new vaccines against pneumonia,diarrheal diseases and then hopefully HPV and some other vaccine-preventable diseases."

VOA: special.2011.06.15

Basically, Michael Jackson's music probably went beyond his music videos, and that's why it connected with people over here."

VOA: standard.2009.06.26