bastion

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

Small towns, villages and hamlets -- home to around half of the central European nation's 9.5 million people -- have long been the bastion of the ruling Fidesz party.

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 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

Nothing but what you might expect: pink, tumbled boulders with guano layered on them like icing; and a steep slope up to the shattered rocks that crowned the bastion.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

This is not to say that fraternities are all bastions of abuse and vice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

Nazih Yahya, a septuagenarian resident with the wearied tone of someone long accustomed to conflict, expected the Israeli military to treat residents in non-Shiite villages differently from areas it counts as bastions of Hezbollah support.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

Very strong it might be, wrought of steel and iron, and guarded with towers and bastions of indomitable stone, yet it was the key, the weakest point in all that high and impenetrable wall.

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