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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

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

At that $500,000 price point, a buyer can still land a single-family home — an example of how the Midwest remains a bastion of affordability.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026

Sir Peter had stood all of one night on the bastion directing and encouraging the men.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli




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