bastion

Example Sentences

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The school has long been known as a progressive bastion.

From The Wall Street Journal

Taking away congressional representation from the party’s last remaining conservative bastions leaves the party even less relevant, he said.

From Los Angeles Times

Aid became a bastion of paternalism or, as some came to see it, neocolonialism.

From The Wall Street Journal

And Virginia, New Jersey, California and New York City are Democratic bastions, shaded navy to midnight blue on election maps.

From The Wall Street Journal

The federal workforce, long a bastion for middle-class people of color, has been decimated.

From Los Angeles Times