mainstay

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The Chrysler 300C sedan of the 2000s became a mainstay in hip-hop videos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 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

But the goal this spring is for him to cement himself as a mainstay in the club’s pitching rotation.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

Sheep, and in particular wool, were a mainstay of the Australian economy for much of the past 150 years, feeding into the notion by the 1950s that Australia "rode on the sheep's back".

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 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