Where are you Based?

rogersgeorge on November 10th, 2021

Your base is IN a place, folks, unlike how this is written:

Hopkins was the head of an old American shipbuilding firm based out of Groton, Connecticut. 

https://nautil.us/issue/107/the-edge/the-disneyfication-of-atomic-power

Mr. Hopkins was in Japan at the time, so he was out of Connecticut, but his company was (is) in Groton, Connecticut.

Get your prepositions right! Harrumpf.

PS—Same for “centered.” You are not centered around. You are centered at or centered in.

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