Basically,it's like lip synching with a guitar." Lance "The Shred" Kasten from Washington,D.C.,made it to the final round of competition.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

"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

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

VOA: special.2010.01.28

"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

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

"President Obama was the first one to call a spade a spade, basically to say it was an invasion.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

'It may have seen itself as the leader but it was basically the next best thing in its own Revolutionary discourse on the market.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

"We just were there and we just did it. We had basically no huge plan."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

"Basically it starts in Moscow and goes all the way to the North Caucasus."

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

"It is funny to watch the situation today,20 years later, when we basically have the same disregard toward our present politicians and see them as jerks,basically,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

It is basically a lack of law and order there.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

"I think basically it's revenge because he's a vocal journalist;

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"If you look at the content of Lech Kaczynski's policies, it was basically this sense of threat to Poland coming both from external sources, from Russia,from Germany, from the European Union."

VOA: standard.2010.06.17