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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

The mass comes on day two of Pope Leo's seven-day visit to Spain, a traditional Catholic bastion where religious observance has been declining sharply in recent years as in much of western Europe.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

On Monday it won a sweeping victory in state elections in West Bengal, India’s fourth most populous state, long regarded as an opposition bastion beyond the BJP’s grasp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

Even within their bastion of privilege, Brandon is royalty—second generation at St. Joseph’s, football captain, the son of two doctors.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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

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