bastion
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To others, though, he is a bastion of truth who has shone a light on the darker side of the beautiful game.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Home prices in America have changed dramatically over the last century — but the Midwest has remained a bastion of affordability through it all.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
An AFP correspondent heard explosions as the state-run National News Agency reported strikes on the area, a Hezbollah bastion that has largely emptied of residents since war erupted last month.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
Juries are a fundamental bastion of democracy, and it’s beyond dangerous to allow powerful and wealthy corporations to shield themselves from ever having to face jurors’ judgment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
It was among lean-to’s and adaptations—past ogham atones commemorating some long-dead Deag the son of No, built into a later bastion upside down.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Leo's predecessor Francis largely overlooked many of Europe's traditional bastions of Catholicism where, like Spain, religious observance has been falling rapidly.
From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026
But in West Bengal and Tripura - once the great bastions of Left power - the communists have been reduced to a shadow of their former self.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
With record-keeping fees under pressure, he said in an interview that managed accounts are “one of the last bastions of good revenue production,” adding that record-keepers “love” participants enrolling because “the revenue is much better.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
Yet many of his strongest bastions of support lie in central Brooklyn, according to voting and donation records.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
By 1906, even the best-guarded political bastions had been stormed—twenty-nine seats in Parliament had fallen to the Labour Party—sending spasms of anxiety through English high society.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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