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pillar

noun as in column of building, or freestanding column

noun as in mainstay; source of strength

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“Championship habits” is one of three pillars Redick has preached relentlessly during training camp, along with championship communication and championship shape.

A 100-foot-tall pillar of fire cast an orange glow over the night sky.

For months, her anticipated arrival at CBS News, an aging pillar of the press establishment, has been a hot topic in the news business.

An obvious barrier to enlisting those pillars to challenge the status quo is, of course, that many of them are the status quo.

From Salon

Yet snoops and snitches are the pillars of the new American order.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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