bastion
Example Sentences
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This is Liverpool, the supposed bastion of stability.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
Iran is no bastion of free expression, in other words, which anyone bopping to those raps about enacting revenge on “the Baal-worshipping Epstein crew” must remember.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026
“The intersection of these headwinds is resulting in an operating reality that is challenging the idea of CPG as a bastion of consistency,” the analysts say, “widening the gap between the most and least advantaged.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Small towns, villages and hamlets -- home to around half of the central European nation's 9.5 million people -- have long been the bastion of the ruling Fidesz party.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
Sir Peter had stood all of one night on the bastion directing and encouraging the men.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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