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This is Liverpool, the supposed bastion of stability.

From BBC ● May 30, 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

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

Even within their bastion of privilege, Brandon is royalty—second generation at St. Joseph’s, football captain, the son of two doctors.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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

But in West Bengal and Tripura - once the great bastions of Left power - the communists have been reduced to a shadow of their former self.

From BBC ● May 26, 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

Rep. Marc Veasey, a Fort Worth Democrat, noting that Texas is far from becoming one of the country’s liberal bastions.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2026

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

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss