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Just when critics thought that playing loud characters was his mainstay, he proved them wrong by delivering a mesmerising performance in Khamoshi as a person who could not hear or speak.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Stowing cash in a high-yield account became a mainstay of financial advice on TikTok.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

His viral story took AI doomerism—long a mainstay of Silicon Valley debate—mainstream in a way that surprised the industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Mariska Hargitay has been a mainstay on television as Capt. Olivia Benson on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

Warner and Paramount were mainstays of Hollywood’s golden era, but streaming brought tough competition from technology companies such as Netflix and Amazon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Circularity and self-referentiality are mainstays in Cowin’s work, wry disruptor that she is.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

When I reported on the business of Starbucks last year, analysts pointed to a major shift happening in the drinks market: concept-forward drinks are outperforming other traditional mainstays in the landscape.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

Kobliner went through three mainstays from her book with MarketWatch to show that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026

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

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann