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I know I could go into all of the ways in which L.A. does not fit that stereotype -- what with our hodgepodge of overworked ethnic groups colliding with basin-like potholes, and obese kids waddling out of McDonald's like anywhere else in the world -- but what I decided was much more charming is the second part of that Mattel ad.
Carine Fabius: In L.A., We May Be Plastic, But... Carine Fabius 2011
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Its basin-like shape narrows to a tip and suddenly becomes very shallow.
Atlantic Ocean 2008
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In high alpine valleys, the paths of receding glaciers are easily recognized, with almost vertical mountain sides, hanging valleys, cirques, and basin-like lakes and tarns.
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Most of the region is in forest and woodland, with cleared land limited to the small basin-like valleys used for pasture and limited cropland.
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Its basin-like shape narrows to a tip and suddenly becomes very shallow.
Atlantic Ocean 2008
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As I said the cadaver was lying in a shallow basin-like table of stainless steel.
Death, I Saw 2007
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The servants poured generous measures of blanquette de Limoux into flat basin-like glasses, as wide as coffee bowls.
Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007
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That basin-like topography of New Orleans really caused a lot of flooding.
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We encountered several concentrations of material near the room's south and west walls, one inside a basin-like structure.
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As the evening drew to a close, we reached a singular basin-like plain, called the Valle del Yeso.
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