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bastion

[bas-chuhn, -tee-uhn] / ˈbæs tʃən, -ti ən /


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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

But the Dow remains a bastion of balance and relative stability in a market that according to some analysts has become overly concentrated in one industry and one small cluster of stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

The shift has opened the doors for the major streaming platforms to get more deeply involved in sports broadcasting rights, which have largely remained a bastion of traditional network television.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 6, 2026

For the moment, Chadwick’s scorn, sounding as it did from deep within the bastion of small science, rankled deeply.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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