bastion
Example Sentences
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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
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
A veteran of Ireland’s war of independence, Moran deplores the political corruption of the 1950s republic from his farmhouse bastion, Great Meadow.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 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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