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He swiftly selected Richard Grenell, a former ambassador to Germany and a staunch ally, as acting director of the center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, for years a staunch supporter of settlers, said there was "no excuse for such thuggish behaviour".

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

He won a seat in Congress in 2022, the same year he and Emily Moreno—whose father is Ohio Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno, a staunch Trump ally—married at one of Trump’s golf clubs.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

He issued a no-bid contract to a company that botched the renovation, according to staunch Trump loyalist Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

Two sleeper agents from communist Czechoslovakia had been living for nearly a decade in the United States, posing as defectors and staunch anticommunists.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Two years after the last ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi failed to make meaningful progress on key issues like fisheries and agriculture, member states face even stauncher challenges this time.

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026

However, the source said Reeker tried to get the agency to issue a stauncher defense of Yovanovitch.

From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2019

He conceived it as an alternative to 4chan, one with an even stauncher commitment to anything-goes content moderation.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019

Saudi Arabia and the U.S. strongly backed Hadi, and the new president proved a stauncher ally to the U.S. than Saleh in the fight against al-Qaida’s branch in the country.

From Time ● Mar. 22, 2015

But he—he was stauncher; he was most to be trusted when the game seemed all but lost.

From The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel by Coningsby Dawson

“He became one of my staunchest supporters and schooled me on whom I could trust and whom I could never turn my back on.”

From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026

Poland has long counted itself one of the U.S.’s staunchest allies since the end of the Cold War.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Poland and Lithuania are among the staunchest supporters of Kyiv in the European Union, and both have recently supplied hundreds of generators to the war-torn country.

From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026

At Granja Elena in Zona Franca, I enjoyed a tomato and scallop tartare that could entice even the staunchest carnivore.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2025

Among its regional leaders were five former Confederate generals; its staunchest supporters were the plantation owners for whom Reconstruction posed an economic and political nightmare.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt