mainstay
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It began in the 1930s as a booster for the local farms that were once a mainstay of the area and are now mostly gone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Meanwhile, the casualties of war include mainstay growth stock funds.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Prior to his work on Radio 2, Mills was a mainstay on Radio 1 - which he joined in 1998 - for decades.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
They weren’t always the flashiest businesses, but they built the Baltimore company into a grocery store mainstay.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Millions of acres of forests were sprayed instead of thou sands as before, in an effort to save the balsams, which are the mainstay of the pulp and paper industry.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing mainstay
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