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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

After all, who’d have predicted that Lawrence, Kan., would become a bastion of pro-Algerian pride?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

The mass comes on day two of Pope Leo's seven-day visit to Spain, a traditional Catholic bastion where religious observance has been declining sharply in recent years as in much of western Europe.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

The Austrians at the Hotel of Bees use a crane to lower an 88-millimeter cannon onto a bastion in the ramparts.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

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