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Freebase

A user-generated knowledge base launched by Metaweb in 2007. Google acquired Metaweb in 2010 and used Freebase to develop its own knowledge base (see Google Knowledge Graph). By mid-2015, Freebase was transferred to Wikidata. See Wikidata, knowledge base and Semantic Web.
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"It was devastating his career," Williams said of the freebasing incident.
From Richard Pryor to Politics: Houston Lawyer Runs Carson Campaign
while freebasing. He seems to know how you feel hearing him say this as
The Moment
I have no evidence to the contrary but I'm absolutely certain she wasn't freebasing amphetamine off the toilet seat, although she did drink a lot of coffee and was an obsessive hooverer, so there's every chance she was probably two-thirds caffeine-fuelled for most of my youth.
rock 'n' roll dad; Dave Owens realises with parenthood comes giving up some old passions ..
Unless it's Pete Doherty on fire while freebasing behind the wheel of a Maserati I don't care.
THE SUNDAY SESSION
He started drinking and doing speed in seventh grade and progressed to freebasing cocaine after high school.
Good people can turn up homeless
Though he is no bard, the author accomplishes a remarkable emotional connection with his readers, particularly as Rick tries to save himself from Rick and then descends into a nightmarish life of freebasing cocaine for days at one point behind windows covered in aluminum.
The Confessions of Rick James: Memoirs of a Super Freak
I have a friend who is a parachute jumper, more than that he does freebasing - jumping off tall buildings, but the lowest possible you jump off and survive.
Facing death makes you feel so alive
Soon Drey (Shareeka Epps), one of his lively students who's good at basketball, comes across him when he is freebasing in the school bathroom.
Unfulfilled potential: 'All the King's Men' flounders; 'Half Nelson' is moving but inconclusive
Orme strangled Miss Redd to death after he called her to his room because he was having a 'bad high' after freebasing cocaine.
KILLER'S DEATH ROW PALS PLEA
IN THE LATE 1970s, CRACK FIRST CAME ON THE SCENE IN THE FORM OF COCAINE freebasing. Many of its users were stockbrokers and investment bankers, rock stars, Hollywood types, and a few pro athletes.
Crack in the rearview mirror: deconstructing drug war mythology
I felt like pointing out that the main reluctance about entrusting a major movie to her was that she was freebasing, but decided to accept her accusation in discreet silence.
Women on top: in the '60s and '70s, women who broke through the film industry's glass ceiling were demanding, combative and a little crazy
He spends four weeks there recovering from flu gone wild, compliments of freebasing. The flu attacks his heart, leaving infection in its wake, and doctors have to drain venomous fluid coursing through his chest.
Someone to lean on

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