bastion
Example Sentences
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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
No one’s comfortable saying that that pop music should be a bastion of the wealthy, but solutions to that are not free-market solutions.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
For years, investors treated the Persian Gulf as a bastion of calm in a deeply unstable region.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
At that $500,000 price point, a buyer can still land a single-family home — an example of how parts of the Midwest remain a bastion of affordability.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026
To infiltrate the impenetrable Ice Court and snatch a prize from the bastion of Fjerdan nobility and military might?
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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