mainstay

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Though rare outside of North America, the “two ways out” rule for mid-rises has been a mainstay of fire protection policy in this country and in Canada for the last century.

From Los Angeles Times

It also reflects the challenge of rapidly transitioning to clean power while growing jobs at home, a mainstay of the Biden agenda.

From Washington Post

Once Europe’s mainstay source of natural gas, Russia’s pipeline exports this year are now likely to be half of last year’s total, analysts and the Russian media say.

From New York Times

At the time, Trump was a real estate developer and tabloid mainstay, and Carroll was a writer and television host.

From Washington Post

“With this I don’t know why anybody needs to watch anything on the Murdoch empire because Tucker was the mainstay of the populist voice over at Fox,” Mr. Bannon said on his Monday podcast.

From Washington Times