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To others, though, he is a bastion of truth who has shone a light on the darker side of the beautiful game.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Home prices in America have changed dramatically over the last century — but the Midwest has remained a bastion of affordability through it all.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026

An AFP correspondent heard explosions as the state-run National News Agency reported strikes on the area, a Hezbollah bastion that has largely emptied of residents since war erupted last month.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

“The intersection of these headwinds is resulting in an operating reality that is challenging the idea of CPG as a bastion of consistency,” the analysts say, “widening the gap between the most and least advantaged.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

In fifty paces, with a swift bend round a jutting bastion of the cliff, it took them out of sight from the Tower.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Leo's predecessor Francis largely overlooked many of Europe's traditional bastions of Catholicism where, like Spain, religious observance has been falling rapidly.

From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026

Tigers, so often the bastions of a physical, aggressive gameplan, have opened up, and a 13-year psychodrama that has seen almost 30 coaches come and go, might well be over too.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

With record-keeping fees under pressure, he said in an interview that managed accounts are “one of the last bastions of good revenue production,” adding that record-keepers “love” participants enrolling because “the revenue is much better.”

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026

Yet many of his strongest bastions of support lie in central Brooklyn, according to voting and donation records.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

Lanre’s allies had brought about the ruin of the last bastions of the empire.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss