mainstay
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Most recently, the star of “The West Wing” has been a mainstay on Fox’s campy disaster series “9-1-1.”
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
Migrant workers and vacationers are FlyDubai’s mainstay customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Since that 4-0 win against Lithuania at Wembley in March 2015, he has been England's mainstay.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Yet, with the making of her latest studio album “Estrus,” Torekov officially solidified itself as a mainstay in the singer’s artistic process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Owners no longer had the economic clout of being a mainstay of the economy.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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Many of Halloween’s biggest mainstays started much more modestly—as ideas from entrepreneurs and small businesses that caught on, spread and eventually became traditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
When I reported on the business of Starbucks last year, analysts pointed to a major shift happening in the drinks market: concept-forward drinks are outperforming other traditional mainstays in the landscape.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
But it’s causing a stir in Hollywood because we’re losing some mainstays of the show, and that’s writing for a variety series, but also taking a big hit is the limited series or movie categories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Kobliner went through three mainstays from her book with MarketWatch to show that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026
By contrast, swine, mainstays of European agriculture, transmit anthrax, brucellosis, leptospirosis, trichinosis, and tuberculosis.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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