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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

After all, who’d have predicted that Lawrence, Kan., would become a bastion of pro-Algerian pride?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

Back in Burton, Al Wall and Emma Cole, brewery manager at Burton Bridge and Heritage Brewing Company, hope to preserve their history and be a "bastion of independence".

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

Small towns, villages and hamlets -- home to around half of the central European nation's 9.5 million people -- have long been the bastion of the ruling Fidesz party.

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

This side of the castle, perhaps a hundred feet high, was the pink bastion they had seen from the mountain-top.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

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

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

Rep. Marc Veasey, a Fort Worth Democrat, noting that Texas is far from becoming one of the country’s liberal bastions.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2026

And to build up new trees next to older ones, so that wildlife can flow "from these ancient bastions into the new woods and hedges and individual trees that we're planting".

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025

Lanre’s allies had brought about the ruin of the last bastions of the empire.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss