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bastion

[bas-chuhn, -tee-uhn] / ˈbæs tʃən, -ti ən /


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These new technologies offered them a bastion of free speech and a global platform.

From Salon

“We could see a blow dealt to the last bastion of consumers willing to spend with abandon: the affluent,” said Swonk.

From Barron's

The school has long been known as a progressive bastion.

From The Wall Street Journal

Aid became a bastion of paternalism or, as some came to see it, neocolonialism.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet many of his strongest bastions of support lie in central Brooklyn, according to voting and donation records.

From The Wall Street Journal