pillar
Example Sentences
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Tourism, once one of the island’s economic pillars, has plummeted, with hotel occupancy hovering below 30%, according to industry executives.
Some of Gustav and Julia’s children become communist activists, leading shadowy lives on the run from the czarist police, while others are pillars of society, becoming lawyers or marrying doctors.
The report said that domestic Chinese GPUs would likely move from being “strategic backups” to “core pillars” of China’s AI industry over the next three to five years.
Meeting this moment requires a national plan for AI preparedness, grounded in four central pillars, transforming education from the earliest grades to late-career retraining.
From MarketWatch
Punjabi Sikhs are a pillar of the American trucking industry.
From Los Angeles Times
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