bastion
Example Sentences
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He’d taken a job at the modern design bastion Knoll, where he developed the celebrated Diamond chair.
From New York Times
A last bastion of privacy, our brains have remained inviolate, even as sensors now record our heartbeats, breaths, steps and sleep.
From Scientific American
To its critics, the Supreme Court is seen as the last bastion of the secular, centrist elite descended from European Jewry who dominated the state during its earliest decades.
From New York Times
Defenders of the court say it is a bastion of democracy, protecting rights and liberties.
From Reuters
Turkey has been the biggest military and political ally of the Syrian opposition, which controls the last rebel bastion in northwest Syria.
From Reuters
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