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The Baltimore-born artist, now in his mid-50s, has become a mainstay in the contemporary-art world and a favorite among collectors thanks to his colorful celebrations of black life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Greenfield Book Store, a mainstay of the city's independent bookshop scene since it opened in 1976, said it would close down when its rental contract ends.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 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

Blindsides are mainstays in films like this, just as in life, and tend to be followed by emotional fractures or wobbles of faith.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 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

The four mainstays of England's fast bowling over a number of years have 1,619 Test wickets between them.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

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

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann