pillar
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Gov. Gavin Newsom has been privately advocating for a truce, in part, to avoid seeing another pillar of industry — the Paramount film studio — leave the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
"The first pillar has fallen, and that's the fans, they are disenchanted, they aren't going to back this team and who would?"
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
To support Henry Bacon’s Parthenon-like building and Daniel Chester French’s colossal statue, builders had to sink 122 hollow steel cylinders deep into the marshy soil to reach bedrock, then fill each pillar with concrete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The center is also a founding pillar of the new Vanderbilt Institute for Therapeutic Advances, a next-generation drug discovery institute that is also led by Lindsley.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
The cup had gone through first one pillar, then another, breaking them into tiny fragments of stone.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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"It serves as a forward-looking strategic platform, guiding our bilateral partnership across all five pillars -- political, economic, maritime, people-to-people, and security."
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Serú Girán and Texas Tornados are probably the twin pillars, but beyond that?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Dozens of the black and blue pillars have been sprayed since they began sprouting earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
In short: “We remain constructive on the medium-term outlook because the structural pillars of this bull market, including record retail participation, passive ownership, and corporate demand for equities, remain firmly intact,” said Rubner.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Rough concrete pillars stood proud above the courthouse steps, looking weathered and bored, like they were tired of carrying the weight of the law on their shoulders.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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