pillar
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A renter generation is emerging in America, composed of younger people who are renting longer and structuring their financial lives without the traditional pillar of home ownership.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
"Raul's CT scan of a snake embryo revealed a structure we had never seen before ¾ it was a pillar of gut stretching through the spiral of the coiling body," Miyashita says.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
Steffi Cao argues that as gambling becomes a load-bearing pillar of the economy, trading cards are “basically the closest thing you could get to a sparkly cartoon slot machine.”
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
Few have missed the irony that one of the biggest casualties would be a pillar of U.S. industry: Caterpillar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
But when Miel hopped off the pillar to join Zeke on the ground, he couldn’t see a bolt that was sticking out the side.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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Nine months in, Lupoi has worked to mold a program that lives by three pillars: relentless effort, ball excellence and power of unit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Inside the park stand 69 white pillars, one for each life lost.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The industry’s boom is coming despite weakness in the housing market, traditionally one of its pillars.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
She noted that Europe had long benefitted from "three pillars" -- a rules-based global order underpinned by US security guarantees, cheap energy and expanding global trade.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Dad pulled his sketchbook out of his Kellner & Newton Messenger Bag—Dad was never far from his sketchbook—and stepped off the wooden planks onto the gravel to sketch the nearest row of broken pillars.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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