bastion
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An AFP correspondent heard explosions as the state-run National News Agency reported strikes on the area, a Hezbollah bastion that has largely emptied of residents since war erupted last month.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
At that $500,000 price point, a buyer can still land a single-family home — an example of how parts of the Midwest remain a bastion of affordability.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026
Discovery, it is simultaneously tackling the last bastion where traditional TV has an edge over streamers: sports and live events.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026
As a decentralized system whose channels and stations exist within the communities they serve, public media represents a last bastion of local and regional programming.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2025
Hull House had become a bastion of progressive thought inhabited by strong-willed young women, “interspersed,” as one visitor put it, “with earnest-faced, self-subordinating and mild-mannered men who slide from room to room apologetically.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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