bastion
Example Sentences
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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.
Aid became a bastion of paternalism or, as some came to see it, neocolonialism.
Yet many of his strongest bastions of support lie in central Brooklyn, according to voting and donation records.
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