mainstay

Agriculture and farming are a mainstay of North Dakota’s economy.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

Following World War II, Jews were a mainstay of the Democratic Party, especially in New York, the largest Jewish city in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Gallows humor, another military mainstay, plays a similar role, allowing service members to literally laugh at death.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

Gabriel is the defensive mainstay of a Brazil side that has been unspectacular but have got the job done under the guidance of the great Carlo Ancelotti.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 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

The film is directed by Jon Erwin, one of the in-house Angel Studios mainstays, who also helmed “Jesus Revolution,” “I Still Believe” and “I Can Only Imagine.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

The two winners will sit in New York’s Celebrity Row, a section that typically features mainstays like Ben Stiller, Fat Joe and Timothee Chalamet.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026

And of course the other mainstays, Declan Rice and Harry Kane.

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026

From Beyoncé to Taylor Swift — whose big-budget tour spectacles received theatrical releases — to Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish’s more modest streaming affairs, tour documentaries and concert films have become modern mainstays.

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2026

By contrast, swine, mainstays of European agriculture, transmit anthrax, brucellosis, leptospirosis, trichinosis, and tuberculosis.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann